A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Nide 1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 415 sivua |
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... truth of the Koran , that of the Thou- sand and One Nights , or the tale of Mother Goose . To be con- vinced of this , let them apply to those stories the sophisms and distinctions of the schools , and they will find nothing in them ...
... truth of the Koran , that of the Thou- sand and One Nights , or the tale of Mother Goose . To be con- vinced of this , let them apply to those stories the sophisms and distinctions of the schools , and they will find nothing in them ...
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... truth is easily defended . Besides what are the objections of M. Rousseau ? Those that every bonze , dervis , and mandarin makes to the monk he would convert . Are those objections insoluble ? What then do the monks in China ? Why do ...
... truth is easily defended . Besides what are the objections of M. Rousseau ? Those that every bonze , dervis , and mandarin makes to the monk he would convert . Are those objections insoluble ? What then do the monks in China ? Why do ...
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... truth ; from a persuasion , that to 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 ...
... truth ; from a persuasion , that to 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 ...
Sivu iv
... truth is now to be found ; for in others , false- hood is discernible . The greater number of au- thors are in their writings , what men of the world are in their conversation : solicitous only to please , they are wholly indifferent ...
... truth is now to be found ; for in others , false- hood is discernible . The greater number of au- thors are in their writings , what men of the world are in their conversation : solicitous only to please , they are wholly indifferent ...
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... truth has been my principal object ; and this consideration , it is to be hoped , will stamp some value on the work . A sincere love of truth is the disposition most fa- vourable for discovering her . I have all along endeavoured to ...
... truth has been my principal object ; and this consideration , it is to be hoped , will stamp some value on the work . A sincere love of truth is the disposition most fa- vourable for discovering her . I have all along endeavoured to ...
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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.