The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common LifeN. Hickman, 1837 - 276 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 187 - Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed," ie Blessed are they who, though they
الصفحة 81 - matters which are not brought to an issue. This is a frequent and unhappy temper and practice. You should rather be intent and solicitous to take up the mind and meaning of the speaker, zealous to seize and approve all that is true in his discourse; nor yet should you want courage to oppose
الصفحة 110 - loss for an answer, the moderator assists him, and suggests some answer to the objection of the opponent, in defence of the question, according to his opinion or sentiment. XI. In public disputes, where the opponents and respondents choose their own side of the question, the moderator's work is not to favour either disputant;
الصفحة 8 - with in any tolerable degree. The most learned of mortals will never find occasion to act over again what is fabled of Alexander the Great, that when he had conquered what was called the eastern world, he wept for want of more worlds to conquer. The worlds of science are immense and endless.
الصفحة 15 - justice or mercy; and when they pronounce sentences of divine wrath against supposed heretics, they add their own human fire and indignation. A dogmatist in religion is not a great way off from a bigot, and is in high danger of growing up to be a bloody
الصفحة 25 - have read; we may consult the page again and again, and meditate on it at successive seasons, in our serenest and retired hours, having the book always at hand: but what we obtain by conversation and in lectures, is oftentimes lost again as soon as the
الصفحة 8 - proper methods to acquaint yourself with your own ignorance, and to impress your mind with a deep and painful sense of the low and imperfect degrees of your present knowledge, that you may be incited with labour and activity to pursue after greater measures. Among others, you may find some such methods as these successful.
الصفحة 56 - spots and blemishes in him:— For who without aversion ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked; Whose railing heroes, and whose wounded gods, Make some suspect he snores as well as nods. Such wise and just distinctions ought to be
الصفحة 205 - them. True logic teaches us to use our reason well, and brings a light into the understanding: true metaphysics or ontology casts a light upon all the objects of thought and meditation, by ranging every being, with all the absolute and relative perfections and properties, modes and attendants of it, in proper rank
الصفحة 105 - Man, being a sociable creature, delights more in conversation, and learns better this way, if it could always be wisely and happily practised. 2. This method hath something very obliging in it, and carries a very humble and condescending air, when he that instructs seems to be the inquirer, and seeks information from him who learns.