The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic. In Two Parts |
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... concerning persons , times , and things . This will awaken you with lively vigour to address yourselves to the work of improving your reasoning powers , and seizing every opportunity and advantage for that end . II . Rule . CONSIDER the ...
... concerning persons , times , and things . This will awaken you with lively vigour to address yourselves to the work of improving your reasoning powers , and seizing every opportunity and advantage for that end . II . Rule . CONSIDER the ...
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... 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 more sensible impression of the poverty ...
... 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 more sensible impression of the poverty ...
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... Concerning poets there has been contest , Whether they're made by art or nature best ; " But if I may presume in this affair , Among the rest my judgement to declare , Ne . No art without a genius will avail , And parts CHAP . I. 21 TO ...
... Concerning poets there has been contest , Whether they're made by art or nature best ; " But if I may presume in this affair , Among the rest my judgement to declare , Ne . No art without a genius will avail , And parts CHAP . I. 21 TO ...
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... concerning any doubts or difficulties that occur to the hearer , this brings it very near to conversation or discourse . IV . CONVERSATION is the next method of improvement , and it is attended with the following advantages . 1. When we ...
... concerning any doubts or difficulties that occur to the hearer , this brings it very near to conversation or discourse . IV . CONVERSATION is the next method of improvement , and it is attended with the following advantages . 1. When we ...
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... concerning the agreement or disagreement of ideas , and form propositions of truth out of them . Reading and conversation may acquaint us with many truths , and with many arguments to support them , but it is our own study and reasoning ...
... concerning the agreement or disagreement of ideas , and form propositions of truth out of them . Reading and conversation may acquaint us with many truths , and with many arguments to support them , but it is our own study and reasoning ...
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The Improvement of the Mind: Or, a Supplement to the Art of Logic. in Two Parts Isaac Watts No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 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.
Page 435 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 438 - But when Christ, who is their life, shall appear, they also shall appear with him in glory.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.