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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... best Model in this Kind , whether we confider the many Advantages de- rived from fuch an orderly Difpofition of our Ideas , or the great Art and Skill difplayed in binding thefe Ideas together . This allo is farther remarkable , in the ...
... best Model in this Kind , whether we confider the many Advantages de- rived from fuch an orderly Difpofition of our Ideas , or the great Art and Skill difplayed in binding thefe Ideas together . This allo is farther remarkable , in the ...
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... best manner we are able , the Progrefs of the Mind in compounding its Ideas . It begins we fee with the moft general Notions , which confifting of but a few fimple Notices , are easily combined and brought together into one Con- ception ...
... best manner we are able , the Progrefs of the Mind in compounding its Ideas . It begins we fee with the moft general Notions , which confifting of but a few fimple Notices , are easily combined and brought together into one Con- ception ...
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... best Instruc- tors in the present Cafe : and whatever Logicians may boast , of being able to form perfect Reafoners by Book and Rule , yet we find by Experience , that the Study of their Precepts , does not always add any great Degree ...
... best Instruc- tors in the present Cafe : and whatever Logicians may boast , of being able to form perfect Reafoners by Book and Rule , yet we find by Experience , that the Study of their Precepts , does not always add any great Degree ...
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... best understood when illuftrated by Examples , efpecially if they are obvious , and taken from common Life ; let us fuppofe any Machine , for inftance a Watch , prefented to us , whofe Structure and Compofition we are as yet ...
... best understood when illuftrated by Examples , efpecially if they are obvious , and taken from common Life ; let us fuppofe any Machine , for inftance a Watch , prefented to us , whofe Structure and Compofition we are as yet ...
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... best Mo- dels . For although when we first fet about the Solution of Equations , we are puzzled at every Step , and think we can never enough admire the Sagacity of thofe who prefent us with elegant Models in that Way ; yet by degrees ...
... best Mo- dels . For although when we first fet about the Solution of Equations , we are puzzled at every Step , and think we can never enough admire the Sagacity of thofe who prefent us with elegant Models in that Way ; yet by degrees ...
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Стр. 121 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
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Стр. 122 - I said above, that the faculties of our souls are improved and made useful to us, just after the same manner as our bodies are. Would you have a man write or paint, dance or fence well, or perform any other manual operation dexterously and with ease?
Стр. 530 - ... yet without power to return, and had this aggravation above all others that they were criminal but not delighted.
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Стр. 555 - ... and doubted about them : for, from the draught of ignorance and error that he had taken at his entrance, he had imagined things that were bad to be good, and things that were good to be bad ; by which means he had lived wretchedly, as indeed all do while they are there. But now that he has obtained, the knowledge of what is really good, he can both live happily himself, and can see how very unhappy the others are.
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Стр. 148 - Difcoveries we have made sjatixnc. may at all times lie open to the Review of the Mind ; or where we mean to communicate and unfold the Difcoveries to others, there are two Ways of proceeding equally within our Choice.