FOR WILLIAM BAYNES, PATERNOSTER-ROW ; THOMAS WILLIAMS AND SON,

STATIONERS' - COURT ; THOMAS HAMILTON, PATERNOSTER - ROW ; AND
JOSIAH CONDER, BUCKLERSBURY, LONDON.

1813.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.

THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND.

PART I.

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CHAPTER 3. General Rules for the Improvement of Knowledge

II. Observation, Reading, Instruction by Lectures, Conversation

and Study compared

III. Rules relating to Observation

IV. Of Books and Reading

V. Judgment of Books

VI. Of Living, Instructions and Lectures of Teachers and

Learners

VII. Of Learning a Language

VIIJ. Of Enquiring the Sense of Writers, &c. especially the

Sacred Writings

IX. Rules of Improvement by Conversation

X. Of Disputes

Xl. Of the Socratical Way of Disputation

XII. Of Forensic Disputes

XIIL Of Academic or Scholastic Disputation

XIV. Of Study or Meditation

XV. Of Fixing the Attention

XVI. Of Enlarging the Capacity of the Mind

XVII. Of Improving the Memory

XVIII. Of Determining a Question

XIX. Of Enquiring into Causes and Effects

XX. Of the Sciences, and their Use in particular Professions

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PART IJ. COMMUNICATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

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CHAPTER I. Methods of Teaching and Reading Lectures

II. Of an Instructive Style

III. Of Convincing Persons of Truth and delivering them from

Errors

IV. Of Authority, its Abuse and Uses

V. Of Treating the Prejudices of Men

VI. Of Instruction by Preaching

VII. Of Writing Books for the Public

VIII. Of Writing and Reading Controversies

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