The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on Education, from the Time of Montaigne to the Present Day, Methodized and Arranged, المجلد 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... understand the in- comprehensible nature of that infinite Being , his head be either filled with false , or perplexed with unintelli- gible notions of him . Let him only be told upon occasion , that God made and governs all things ...
... understand the in- comprehensible nature of that infinite Being , his head be either filled with false , or perplexed with unintelli- gible notions of him . Let him only be told upon occasion , that God made and governs all things ...
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... understands nothing ? And how little are the greater part of the Scriptures suited to a child's capa- city ! What an odd jumble of thoughts must a child have in his head , if he have any at all , such as he should have concerning ...
... understands nothing ? And how little are the greater part of the Scriptures suited to a child's capa- city ! What an odd jumble of thoughts must a child have in his head , if he have any at all , such as he should have concerning ...
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... understanding . - Rollin . The knowledge of morality and christianity is the absolutely indispensable part of education . For what avails it how knowing a person is in speculative . science , if he knows not how to be useful and happy ...
... understanding . - Rollin . The knowledge of morality and christianity is the absolutely indispensable part of education . For what avails it how knowing a person is in speculative . science , if he knows not how to be useful and happy ...
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... understanding may then be rationally convinced of the certainty of the Divine existence by a set of argu- ments not too abstract , but yet convincing . The proof a posteriori , as it is commonly called , is the fittest to be dwelt upon ...
... understanding may then be rationally convinced of the certainty of the Divine existence by a set of argu- ments not too abstract , but yet convincing . The proof a posteriori , as it is commonly called , is the fittest to be dwelt upon ...
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... understand ; and if it should ap- pear that , for some time , a child conceives of God as of a man who lives above the clouds , and from thence sees every thing that is done upon earth , there will be no material inconvenience attending ...
... understand ; and if it should ap- pear that , for some time , a child conceives of God as of a man who lives above the clouds , and from thence sees every thing that is done upon earth , there will be no material inconvenience attending ...
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الصفحة 326 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
الصفحة 132 - ... thereof in some chosen short book lessoned thoroughly to them, they might then forthwith proceed to learn the substance of good things, and arts in due order, which would bring the whole language quickly into their power.
الصفحة 138 - Can there be any thing more ridiculous, than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade...
الصفحة 134 - For their studies : first, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used or any better ; and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.
الصفحة 132 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
الصفحة 133 - ... having but newly left those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction, and now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge...
الصفحة 132 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
الصفحة 326 - I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much then, after two or three years that they have well laid their grounds, but to ride out in companies with prudent and staid guides...
الصفحة 139 - Fables, and writing the English translation (made as literal as it can be) in one line, and the Latin words which answer each of them, just over it in another.
الصفحة 257 - And in natural philosophy they may proceed leisurely from \ the history of meteors, minerals, plants, and living creatures, as far as anatomy.