The Improvement of the Mind: To which is Added, a Discourse on the Education of Children and YouthEvert Duyckinck, no. 68 Water-street., 1819 - 425 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xiv
... lights , that they might , with more frequency , and more force , impress the soul . I shall be sufficiently satis- fied with the good humour and lenity of my Readers , if they will please to regard these papers as parcels of imperfect ...
... lights , that they might , with more frequency , and more force , impress the soul . I shall be sufficiently satis- fied with the good humour and lenity of my Readers , if they will please to regard these papers as parcels of imperfect ...
Σελίδα 7
... light . Oldham . It is meditation and studious thought , it is the exercise of your own reason and judgment upon all you read , that gives good sense even to the best genius , and affords your understanding the truest improvement . A ...
... light . Oldham . It is meditation and studious thought , it is the exercise of your own reason and judgment upon all you read , that gives good sense even to the best genius , and affords your understanding the truest improvement . A ...
Σελίδα 9
... light such truths in natural philosophy , and such discoveries in the heavens and the earth , as seemed to be beyond the reach of man . But may there not be Sir Isaac New- tons in every science ? You should never despair therefore of ...
... light such truths in natural philosophy , and such discoveries in the heavens and the earth , as seemed to be beyond the reach of man . But may there not be Sir Isaac New- tons in every science ? You should never despair therefore of ...
Σελίδα 10
... light and love . VIII . Do not hover always on the surface of things , nor take up suddenly with mere appearances ; but penetrate into the depth of matters , as far as your time and circumstances allow , especially in those things which ...
... light and love . VIII . Do not hover always on the surface of things , nor take up suddenly with mere appearances ; but penetrate into the depth of matters , as far as your time and circumstances allow , especially in those things which ...
Σελίδα 12
... light broke in upon his understanding , with uncontrollable force , by reading something of mathe- matical philosophy ; yet having asserted his former opinions in a most confident manner , he is tempted now to wink a little against the ...
... light broke in upon his understanding , with uncontrollable force , by reading something of mathe- matical philosophy ; yet having asserted his former opinions in a most confident manner , he is tempted now to wink a little against the ...
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Σελίδα 148 - 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.
Σελίδα 464 - I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me. Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
Σελίδα 435 - Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Σελίδα 11 - I've heard, from all I've seen? What know I more that's worth the knowing ? What have I done that's worth the doing ? What have I sought that I should shun ? What duty have I left undone ? Or into what new follies run ? These self-inquiries are the road That leads to virtue and to God.
Σελίδα viii - ... 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 433 - 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 202 - Thomas, because thou hast seen thou hast believed ; blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed...
Σελίδα 29 - ... of our own thoughts, that must form our judgment of things. Our own thoughts should join or disjoin these ideas in a proposition for ourselves: it is our own mind that must judge for ourselves concerning the agreement or disagreement of ideas, and form propositions of truth out of them. Reading and conversation may...
Σελίδα xi - Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his Improvement of the Mind, of which the radical principles may, indeed, be found in Locke's Conduct of the Understanding ; but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him the merit of a work, in the highest degree, useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be charged with deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended.
Σελίδα 433 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels ; not in the bought smile Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendeared, Casual fruition ; nor in court amours, Mixed dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenade, which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain...