The preceptor: containing a general course of education [ed. by R. Dodsley].1758 |
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... Solid and thinking Beings are , it is true , the only Ideas of Subftance , that we are able to frame ; but this is no more an Argument against the Existence of of other Kinds , than the want of the Ideas 22 Book I. Of SIMPLE APPREHENSION ,
... Solid and thinking Beings are , it is true , the only Ideas of Subftance , that we are able to frame ; but this is no more an Argument against the Existence of of other Kinds , than the want of the Ideas 22 Book I. Of SIMPLE APPREHENSION ,
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... against the Reality or Poffibility of fuch Perceptions . Difference in the Manner XII . BEFORE I difmifs this Subject , it may not be improper to take Notice of a remarkable Difference , as to the Manner of our conceiving of conceiving ...
... against the Reality or Poffibility of fuch Perceptions . Difference in the Manner XII . BEFORE I difmifs this Subject , it may not be improper to take Notice of a remarkable Difference , as to the Manner of our conceiving of conceiving ...
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... against it . Thus all the Ideas that enter into the com- plex one of Murder , are brought together , and united into one Conception , before the Action itself really exifts . It is not however thought neceffary , to take into ...
... against it . Thus all the Ideas that enter into the com- plex one of Murder , are brought together , and united into one Conception , before the Action itself really exifts . It is not however thought neceffary , to take into ...
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... against a Flint it will yield Sparks of Fire ; yet put into a Veffel and diftilled , affords one eighth Part of its Quantity in Water . Dead Bones , after being dry'd 25 Years , will yield by Diftillation half their Weight in Water . It ...
... against a Flint it will yield Sparks of Fire ; yet put into a Veffel and diftilled , affords one eighth Part of its Quantity in Water . Dead Bones , after being dry'd 25 Years , will yield by Diftillation half their Weight in Water . It ...
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... against hard Bodies , or their Intermixture with other Fluids , are kindled , by which means bursting out into a greater Com- pafs , the Place becomes too narrow for them ; fo that pref- fing violently on all Sides , the adjoining Parts ...
... against hard Bodies , or their Intermixture with other Fluids , are kindled , by which means bursting out into a greater Com- pafs , the Place becomes too narrow for them ; fo that pref- fing violently on all Sides , the adjoining Parts ...
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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 - Nightfhade, where the Dominion of Indolence terminates, and the hopelefs Wanderer is delivered up to Melancholy : The Chains of Habit are riveted for ever ; and Melancholy, having tortured her Prifoner for a Time, configns him at laft to the Cruelty of Defpair.
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. 541 - Vast happiness enjoy thy gay allies ! A youth of follies, an old age of cares ; Young yet enervate, old yet never wise, Vice wastes their vigour, and their mind impairs, Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtless ease, Reserving woes for age, their prime they spend.; All wretched, hopeless, in the evil. days, With sorrow to the verge of life they tend. Griev'd with the present, of the past...
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Стр. 530 - ... yet without power to return, and had this aggravation above all others that they were criminal but not delighted. The drunkard for...