The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic. In Two PartsD. Schaw, 1801 - 462 páginas |
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... sometimes it lay by without growth , like a vegetable in the winter , and did not increase half so much in the revolution of a year . As these thoughts occurred to me in reading or meditation , or in my notices of the various ...
... sometimes it lay by without growth , like a vegetable in the winter , and did not increase half so much in the revolution of a year . As these thoughts occurred to me in reading or meditation , or in my notices of the various ...
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... sometimes on the puzzling in- quiries concerning vacuums and atoms , the doctrine of in- finites , indivisibles , and incommensurables in geometry , wherein there appear some insolvable difficulties : Do this on purpose to give you a ...
... sometimes on the puzzling in- quiries concerning vacuums and atoms , the doctrine of in- finites , indivisibles , and incommensurables in geometry , wherein there appear some insolvable difficulties : Do this on purpose to give you a ...
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... sometimes have sense enough to know their own foible , and therefore they craftily shun the at- tacks of argument , or boldly pretend to despise and renounce them ; because they are conscious of their own ignorance , and inwardly ...
... sometimes have sense enough to know their own foible , and therefore they craftily shun the at- tacks of argument , or boldly pretend to despise and renounce them ; because they are conscious of their own ignorance , and inwardly ...
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... sometimes insupportable . 3. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbours . Every one of his opinions appears to him written , as it were , with sun - beams , and he grows angry that his neighbour does not see ...
... sometimes insupportable . 3. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbours . Every one of his opinions appears to him written , as it were , with sun - beams , and he grows angry that his neighbour does not see ...
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... sometimes , if we have professed what we find afterwards to be false , we should never be ashamed nor afraid to renounce a mistake . That is a noble essay which is found among the occasional papers , to encourage the world to practise ...
... sometimes , if we have professed what we find afterwards to be false , we should never be ashamed nor afraid to renounce a mistake . That is a noble essay which is found among the occasional papers , to encourage the world to practise ...
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Página 422 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range : by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities . Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Página 435 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Página 92 - What shall we say then ? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound ? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein...
Página 439 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Página 51 - General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room ; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
Página 438 - But when Christ, who is their life, shall appear, they also shall appear with him in glory.
Página 190 - The situation of the several parts of the earth are better learned by one day's conversing with a map or a sea-chart, than by merely reading the description of their situation a hundred times over in books of geography.
Página 33 - Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Página 260 - Get a distinct and comprehensive knowledge of the subject which you treat of ; survey it on all sides, and make yourself perfect master of it ; then you will have all the sentiments that relate to it in your view, and under your command, and your tongue will very easily clothe those ideas with words which your mind has first made so familiar and easy to itself. Scribendi recte sapere est et principium etfons, Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur.
Página 155 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.