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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... 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 : such a course , well ...
... 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 : such a course , well ...
Σελίδα 11
... till you have turned the proposition on all sides , and searched the matter through and through , so that you cannot be mistaken . And even where you may think you have full grounds of assurance , be not TO OBTAIN KNOWLEDGE . 11.
... till you have turned the proposition on all sides , and searched the matter through and through , so that you cannot be mistaken . And even where you may think you have full grounds of assurance , be not TO OBTAIN KNOWLEDGE . 11.
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... propositions , is knowledge gotten at first hand . Hereby we see and know things as they are , or as ' they appear to us ; we take the impressions of them on our minds from the original objects themselves , which give a clearer and ...
... propositions , is knowledge gotten at first hand . Hereby we see and know things as they are , or as ' they appear to us ; we take the impressions of them on our minds from the original objects themselves , which give a clearer and ...
Σελίδα 29
... proposition for our- selves : it is our own mind that must judge for our- selves concerning the agreement or disagreement of ideas , and form propositions of truth out of them . Reading and conversation may acquaint us with many truths ...
... proposition for our- selves : it is our own mind that must judge for our- selves concerning the agreement or disagreement of ideas , and form propositions of truth out of them . Reading and conversation may acquaint us with many truths ...
Σελίδα 30
... propositions are true , and whether these arguments are just and solid . It is confessed there are a thousand things which our eyes have not seen , and which would never come within the reach of our personal aud imme- diate knowledge ...
... propositions are true , and whether these arguments are just and solid . It is confessed there are a thousand things which our eyes have not seen , and which would never come within the reach of our personal aud imme- diate knowledge ...
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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.