A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Nide 1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 415 sivua |
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... become so puerile and ridiculous . I hope , for the honour of the human understanding , that the great men of the earth , the princes , mi- nisters , and magistrates will one day blush at having been the vile instruments of monastic ...
... become so puerile and ridiculous . I hope , for the honour of the human understanding , that the great men of the earth , the princes , mi- nisters , and magistrates will one day blush at having been the vile instruments of monastic ...
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... becomes the most irksome . At that age he who compels me to study is my enemy ; I seek his punish- ment , and wish his death . I can very well pardon a poet for his fine verses ; I can read them without attention but I cannot pardon a ...
... becomes the most irksome . At that age he who compels me to study is my enemy ; I seek his punish- ment , and wish his death . I can very well pardon a poet for his fine verses ; I can read them without attention but I cannot pardon a ...
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... become virtuous and happy , we want only to know ourselves , and en- tertain just ideas of morals . My design can scarcely be mistaken . Had I published this book in my life - time , I should , in all probability , have exposed myself ...
... become virtuous and happy , we want only to know ourselves , and en- tertain just ideas of morals . My design can scarcely be mistaken . Had I published this book in my life - time , I should , in all probability , have exposed myself ...
Sivu v
... become me to say any thing in praise of this work ; I shall , therefore , only observe , in respect to its principles , that I have advanced no sentiment which was not suggested by my own re- flection , nor affirmed any proposition ...
... become me to say any thing in praise of this work ; I shall , therefore , only observe , in respect to its principles , that I have advanced no sentiment which was not suggested by my own re- flection , nor affirmed any proposition ...
Sivu vi
... em- ployed in the work , a change has happened in the circumstances and government of my fellow - citi- zens . The disorder , which I hoped in some measure i measure to remedy , is become incurable : the prospect vi PREFACE .
... em- ployed in the work , a change has happened in the circumstances and government of my fellow - citi- zens . The disorder , which I hoped in some measure i measure to remedy , is become incurable : the prospect vi PREFACE .
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Sivu 92 - The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy, have consequences very important, and of a long duration. It is with these first impressions, as with a river, whose waters we can easily turn, by different canals, in quite opposite courses, so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source, it takes different directions, and at last arrives at places far distant from each other; and with the same facility we may, I think, turn the minds of children to what...
Sivu 148 - Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Sivu 16 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Sivu 93 - I conclude, that there are great re*' sources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish " with their years It is evident therefore that it is not of nature, but of our negligence we ought to complain.
Sivu 26 - The discreet Corneille had remained a lawyer. Thus it is that the devotion of a mother, the death of Cromwell, deer-stealing, the exclamation of an old man, and the beauty of a woman, have given five illustrious characters to Europe.