A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Nide 1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 415 sivua |
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... learned , as he is below him of real science . It is to be attributed to bad instructors . science 6 TREATISE ON MAN . Of false science, or acquired ignorance, The means by which it obstructs the progress of education.
... learned , as he is below him of real science . It is to be attributed to bad instructors . science 6 TREATISE ON MAN . Of false science, or acquired ignorance, The means by which it obstructs the progress of education.
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... learned , and has by degrees lost his reason when he thought to improve it , has purchased his stupidity at too dear a rate ever to renounce it * . His mind over- loaded with the weight of a learned ignorance , can never mount up to the ...
... learned , and has by degrees lost his reason when he thought to improve it , has purchased his stupidity at too dear a rate ever to renounce it * . His mind over- loaded with the weight of a learned ignorance , can never mount up to the ...
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... learned ? Does he live habitually with those of superior abilities ? He becomes en- lightened . It is to a desire I always had to converse with such men , said a celebrated author to me one day , that I owe my feeble talents . Own ...
... learned ? Does he live habitually with those of superior abilities ? He becomes en- lightened . It is to a desire I always had to converse with such men , said a celebrated author to me one day , that I owe my feeble talents . Own ...
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... learned ; the less they know the more docile they will be to his dictates . The interest of the spiritual power is not connected with that of a nation , but with that of a sect . Two nations are at war ; what is it to the pope which is ...
... learned ; the less they know the more docile they will be to his dictates . The interest of the spiritual power is not connected with that of a nation , but with that of a sect . Two nations are at war ; what is it to the pope which is ...
Sivu 64
... learned the lesson of moderation : " An insatia- " ble thirst of military fame , an unconfined ambition of extending " their empire , an extravagant confidence in their own knowledge " and force , an insolent contempt of their enemies ...
... learned the lesson of moderation : " An insatia- " ble thirst of military fame , an unconfined ambition of extending " their empire , an extravagant confidence in their own knowledge " and force , an insolent contempt of their enemies ...
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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.