The Improvement of the Mind: To which is Added, a Discourse on the Education of Children and YouthJ. Walker and Company, 1814 - 486 σελίδες |
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... ideas , what new proposition or truth you have gained , what further confirmation of known truths , and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge ; and let no day , if possible , pass away without some intellectual gain ...
... ideas , what new proposition or truth you have gained , what further confirmation of known truths , and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge ; and let no day , if possible , pass away without some intellectual gain ...
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... ideas : he can teach you to lay hold on a clue which may guide your thoughts with safety and ease through all the dif- ficulties of an intricate subject . Think how easily the Author of your beings can direct your motions by his ...
... ideas : he can teach you to lay hold on a clue which may guide your thoughts with safety and ease through all the dif- ficulties of an intricate subject . Think how easily the Author of your beings can direct your motions by his ...
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... ideas which we derive from our senses , or from the operations of our souls , and join them in propo- sitions . It is by meditation that we fix in our me- mory whatsoever we learn , and form our own judg ment of the truth or falsehood ...
... ideas which we derive from our senses , or from the operations of our souls , and join them in propo- sitions . It is by meditation that we fix in our me- mory whatsoever we learn , and form our own judg ment of the truth or falsehood ...
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... ideas of things , as it includes in it sense and conscious- ness . 2. All our knowledge derived from observation , whether it be of single ideas or of propositions , is knowledge gotten at first hand . Hereby we see and know things as ...
... ideas of things , as it includes in it sense and conscious- ness . 2. All our knowledge derived from observation , whether it be of single ideas or of propositions , is knowledge gotten at first hand . Hereby we see and know things as ...
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... ideas of things in a more lively and forcible way , than the mere reading of books in the silence and re- tirement of the closet . 2. A tutor or instructor , when he paraphrases and explains other authors , can mark out the precise ...
... ideas of things in a more lively and forcible way , than the mere reading of books in the silence and re- tirement of the closet . 2. A tutor or instructor , when he paraphrases and explains other authors , can mark out the precise ...
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Σελίδα 448 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Σελίδα 419 - 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.
Σελίδα x - ... his mind and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
Σελίδα 447 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard : I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Σελίδα 84 - 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...
Σελίδα xii - Few men have left behind such purity of character, or such monuments of laborious piety. He has provided instruction for all ages; from those who are lisping their first lessons, to the enlightened readers of Malebranche and Locke; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual nature unexamined; he has taught the art of reasoning, and the science of the stars.
Σελίδα 456 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that, is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Σελίδα 150 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Σελίδα 207 - Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Σελίδα 187 - Sounds which address the ear are lost and die In one short hour ; but that which strikes the eye Lives long upon the mind; the faithful sight Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light.