The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic. In Two PartsD. Schaw, 1801 - 462 páginas |
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... tongue . VII . THOUGH it may be proper sometimes to make your observations concerning persons as well as things , the sub- ject of your discourse in learned or useful conversation , yet what remarks you make on particular persons , espe ...
... tongue . VII . THOUGH it may be proper sometimes to make your observations concerning persons as well as things , the sub- ject of your discourse in learned or useful conversation , yet what remarks you make on particular persons , espe ...
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... their own stamp or size , though they have no knowledge or taste of the subject themselves . These , with a fluent and voluble tongue , become mere mere echoes of the praises or censures of other men 68 PART I. JUDGEMENT OF BOOKS .
... their own stamp or size , though they have no knowledge or taste of the subject themselves . These , with a fluent and voluble tongue , become mere mere echoes of the praises or censures of other men 68 PART I. JUDGEMENT OF BOOKS .
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... tongue of any nation in the present age , are more easily learnt and taught by a few rules , and much familiar converse , joined to the reading some proper authors . The dead languages are such as cease to be spo- ken in any nation ...
... tongue of any nation in the present age , are more easily learnt and taught by a few rules , and much familiar converse , joined to the reading some proper authors . The dead languages are such as cease to be spo- ken in any nation ...
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... tongue , which are taught in the school - book called Que Genus , should not be touched in the first learning of the rudiments of that tongue . II . As the grammar by which you learn any tongue should be very short at first , so it must ...
... tongue , which are taught in the school - book called Que Genus , should not be touched in the first learning of the rudiments of that tongue . II . As the grammar by which you learn any tongue should be very short at first , so it must ...
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... tongue . But let the higher poets , and orators , and historians , and other writers , whose language is more laboured , and whose sense is more remote from common life , be rather kept out of sight , till there be some proficiency made ...
... tongue . But let the higher poets , and orators , and historians , and other writers , whose language is more laboured , and whose sense is more remote from common life , be rather kept out of sight , till there be some proficiency made ...
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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.