Mental and Social Culture: A Text Book for Schools and AcademiesJ.W. Schermerhorn & Company, 1880 - 118 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 54 - Attend with sincere diligence while any one of the company is declaring his sense of the question proposed; hear the argument with patience, though it differ ever so much from your sentiments, for you yourself are very desirous to be heard with patience by others who differ from you. Let not your thoughts be active and busy all the while to find out something to contradict, and by what means to oppose the speaker, especially in matters which are not brought to an issue.
الصفحة 31 - General observations drawn from particulars, are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
الصفحة 29 - Indies, and- fulfil the duties of the military or the mercantile life there-; let him rove through the earth or the seas, for his .own humour as a traveller, or pursue his diversions in what part of the world he pleases as a gentleman : let prosperous or adverse fortune call him to the most distant parts of the globe; still let him carry on his knowledge and the improvement of his soul by wise observations.
الصفحة 16 - These arts of reading and writing are of infinite advantage ; for, by them we are made partakers of the sentiments, observations, reasonings, and improvements, of all the learned world, in the most remote nations and in former ages, almost from the beginning of mankind. III. Public or private lectures are such verbal in structions as are given by a teacher, while the learners attend in silence.
الصفحة 32 - ... first read in a more general and cursory manner, to learn a little what the treatise promises, and what you may expect from the writer's manner and skill. And for this end, I would advise always that the preface be read, and a survey taken of the table of contents, if there be one, before the first survey of the book.
الصفحة 23 - Though observation and instruction, reading, and conversation, may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation, and the labour of our own thoughts, that must form our judgment of things.
الصفحة 57 - As you may sometimes raise inquiries for your own instruction and improvement, and draw out the learning, wisdom, and fine sentiments of your friends, who perhaps may be too reserved or modest ; so, at other times, if you perceive a person unskil'ful in the matter of debate, you may, by questions aptly proposed in the Socratic method, lead him into a clearer knowledge of the subject; then you become his instructor in such a manner as may not appear to make yourself his superior. XX. Take heed of...
الصفحة 10 - VII. Let the hope of new discoveries, as well as the satisfaction and pleasure of known truths, animate your daily industry. Do not think learning in general is arrived at its perfection, or that the knowledge of any particular subject in any science can not be improved, merely because it has lain five hundred or a thousand years without improvement.
الصفحة 15 - ... that our bodies die and are carried to the grave, and that one generation succeeds another. All those things which we see, which we hear or feel, which we perceive by sense or consciousness, or which we know in a direct manner, with scarce any exercise of our reflecting faculties, or our reasoning powers, mav be included under the general name of observation.
الصفحة 51 - ... civil life, lest if you should happen to be nursed up or educated in early mistake, you should be confirmed and established in the same mistake, by conversing only with persons of the same sentiments. A free and general conversation with men of very various countries and of different parties, opinions, and practices (so far as it may be done safely) is of excellent use to undeceive us in many wrong judgments •which we may have framed, and to lead us into juster thoughts.