The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein the First Principles of Polite Learning are Laid Down in a Way Most Suitable for Trying the Genius, and Advancing the Instruction of Youth. In Twelve Parts. Illustrated with Maps and Useful Cuts, Том 2R. and J. Dodsley, 1758 |
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... Experience we have of it in ourselves , and fee whither the Chain of our own Thoughts will without Conftraint lead us . Perception . V. FIRST then , we find ourselves furrounded with a Variety of Objects , which acting diffe- rently ...
... Experience we have of it in ourselves , and fee whither the Chain of our own Thoughts will without Conftraint lead us . Perception . V. FIRST then , we find ourselves furrounded with a Variety of Objects , which acting diffe- rently ...
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... experience within ourselves , we cannot afcribe to them Pro- perties or Ways of Knowledge , diftinct from thofe fuggefted to us by our own Consciousness . And hence it is , that though we readily own there may be various Ranks of ...
... experience within ourselves , we cannot afcribe to them Pro- perties or Ways of Knowledge , diftinct from thofe fuggefted to us by our own Consciousness . And hence it is , that though we readily own there may be various Ranks of ...
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... Experience is a Proof , how liable we are in these Cafes to be deceived . Juft fo it is in judging of Duration . When we carry back our Thoughts to any paft Period of our Lives , without Con- fideration of the Number of Years , or ...
... Experience is a Proof , how liable we are in these Cafes to be deceived . Juft fo it is in judging of Duration . When we carry back our Thoughts to any paft Period of our Lives , without Con- fideration of the Number of Years , or ...
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... Experience has taught him the Perception to which Men have annexed the Name Heat , it then becomes to him the Sign of that Idea , and he thence- forth understands the Meaning of a Term , which before , all the Words in the World would ...
... Experience has taught him the Perception to which Men have annexed the Name Heat , it then becomes to him the Sign of that Idea , and he thence- forth understands the Meaning of a Term , which before , all the Words in the World would ...
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... Experience , from the feveral Objects of Nature , proper to produce thofe Perceptions in us . Words indeed may very well ferve to remind us of them , if they have already found Admiffion into the Un- derstanding , and their Connection ...
... Experience , from the feveral Objects of Nature , proper to produce thofe Perceptions in us . Words indeed may very well ferve to remind us of them , if they have already found Admiffion into the Un- derstanding , and their Connection ...
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