A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Nide 1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 415 sivua |
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... instruction , and disposed to receive it . At such a time , if a work of great merit makes its appearance , the happiest effects may be produced : but the moment once past , the people , insensible to glory , are , by the form of A 4 ...
... instruction , and disposed to receive it . At such a time , if a work of great merit makes its appearance , the happiest effects may be produced : but the moment once past , the people , insensible to glory , are , by the form of A 4 ...
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... instruction . That other is the difference of their situation ; whence that of their knowledge results . CHAP . II . Every new idea is the gift of chance , .............. 263 That chance has greater influence on our education than is ...
... instruction . That other is the difference of their situation ; whence that of their knowledge results . CHAP . II . Every new idea is the gift of chance , .............. 263 That chance has greater influence on our education than is ...
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... instructions can carry them , and shew him what is the power of education over them . I regard the understanding , the virtue , and genius of man , as the product of instruction . This idea pre- sented in the Treatise on the ...
... instructions can carry them , and shew him what is the power of education over them . I regard the understanding , the virtue , and genius of man , as the product of instruction . This idea pre- sented in the Treatise on the ...
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... instruction ; it is because they are educated by men of false science , and read silly books ; for it is with books as with men , there is good and bad com- pany . The work of merit is almost every where prohi bited ( 4 ) . Good Sense ...
... instruction ; it is because they are educated by men of false science , and read silly books ; for it is with books as with men , there is good and bad com- pany . The work of merit is almost every where prohi bited ( 4 ) . Good Sense ...
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... instruction . Now of these two sorts of ignorance or stupidity , which is the most incurable ? The latter . The man who knows requisite to excite in nothing may learn ; it is only him the desire of knowledge . But he who is falsely ...
... instruction . Now of these two sorts of ignorance or stupidity , which is the most incurable ? The latter . The man who knows requisite to excite in nothing may learn ; it is only him the desire of knowledge . But he who is falsely ...
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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.