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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... muft begin here . This then is the firft Capacity of the human Mind , that it is fit- ted to receive the Impreffions made upon it by outward Ob- jects affecting the Senfes ; which Impreffions thus derived into the Understanding , and ...
... muft begin here . This then is the firft Capacity of the human Mind , that it is fit- ted to receive the Impreffions made upon it by outward Ob- jects affecting the Senfes ; which Impreffions thus derived into the Understanding , and ...
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... muft think , which would make it not one , but a Multitude of diftinct confcious Beings ; or its Power of thinking muft arife , from the Connection of the Parts one with another , their Motion and Difpofition , & c . which all taken ...
... muft think , which would make it not one , but a Multitude of diftinct confcious Beings ; or its Power of thinking muft arife , from the Connection of the Parts one with another , their Motion and Difpofition , & c . which all taken ...
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... muft of course vary in proportion . Thus we get Perceptions of diftinct Powers and Properties , and range Bodies into Claffes , according as we find them to agree or disagree in thefe their obfervable Qualities . But it is not fo in our ...
... muft of course vary in proportion . Thus we get Perceptions of diftinct Powers and Properties , and range Bodies into Claffes , according as we find them to agree or disagree in thefe their obfervable Qualities . But it is not fo in our ...
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... muft have , and put together in his Mind , before the Ear can be entertained with the actual Performance . Now although the Act of the Mind , is in fome Measure exerted in the framing of all our complex Notions , yet as many of them ...
... muft have , and put together in his Mind , before the Ear can be entertained with the actual Performance . Now although the Act of the Mind , is in fome Measure exerted in the framing of all our complex Notions , yet as many of them ...
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... muft own at last , that we can no more arrive at the End of Duration , than at the End of Number . It is true , the feveral Generations of Men , rife and disappear in very quick Succeffions ; Earth itfelf may decay , and thofe bright ...
... muft own at last , that we can no more arrive at the End of Duration , than at the End of Number . It is true , the feveral Generations of Men , rife and disappear in very quick Succeffions ; Earth itfelf may decay , and thofe bright ...
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