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الصفحة 6
... able to mafter ; and their very Natures feem to want a Foun- dation to raise on it that which other Men eafily attain unto . ~ Amongst Men of equal Education there is great inequality of Parts . And the Woods of America , as well as the ...
... able to mafter ; and their very Natures feem to want a Foun- dation to raise on it that which other Men eafily attain unto . ~ Amongst Men of equal Education there is great inequality of Parts . And the Woods of America , as well as the ...
الصفحة 23
... able to give any reafon of one's belief , or to say any thing for his preference of this to any other Opinion ; and therefore they muft make use of fome Principles or other , and those can be no other than fuch as they have and can ...
... able to give any reafon of one's belief , or to say any thing for his preference of this to any other Opinion ; and therefore they muft make use of fome Principles or other , and those can be no other than fuch as they have and can ...
الصفحة 24
... able to bring his Mind to it , than that he fhould not be on a fudden able to grave or defign , dance on the Ropes , or write a good hand who has never practifed either of them . : Nay , the most of Men are fo wholly ftrangers to this ...
... able to bring his Mind to it , than that he fhould not be on a fudden able to grave or defign , dance on the Ropes , or write a good hand who has never practifed either of them . : Nay , the most of Men are fo wholly ftrangers to this ...
الصفحة 30
... able to transfer it to other parts of Knowledge as they fhall have occafion . For in all forts of Reafoning , every fingle Ar- gument fhould be managed as a Mathema- tical Demonstration , the Connection and de- pendence of Ideas fhould ...
... able to transfer it to other parts of Knowledge as they fhall have occafion . For in all forts of Reafoning , every fingle Ar- gument fhould be managed as a Mathema- tical Demonstration , the Connection and de- pendence of Ideas fhould ...
الصفحة 38
... able to know , whether he be oblig'd to be juft , if he has not establish'd Ideas in his Mind , of Obligation and of Juftice , fince Know- ledge confifts in nothing but the perceived Agreement or Difagreement of thofe Ideas ; and fo of ...
... able to know , whether he be oblig'd to be juft , if he has not establish'd Ideas in his Mind , of Obligation and of Juftice , fince Know- ledge confifts in nothing but the perceived Agreement or Difagreement of thofe Ideas ; and fo of ...
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الصفحة 18 - ... and those who excel in either of them never purposely set themselves to the study of it as an art to be learnt.
الصفحة 7 - The first is of those who seldom reason at all, but do and think according to the example of others, whether parents, neighbours, ministers, or who else they are pleased to make choice of to have an implicit faith in, for the ' saving of themselves the pains and trouble of thinking and examining for themselves.
الصفحة 17 - Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time and long practice to attain but some degrees of a like ability.
الصفحة 30 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
الصفحة 17 - As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is ; and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions.
الصفحة 17 - The legs of a dancingmaster, and the fingers of a musician, fall, as it were, naturally without thought or pains into regular and admirable motions. Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain...
الصفحة 228 - If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father...
الصفحة 19 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule, and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, .or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
الصفحة 226 - That no mission can be looked on to be divine, that delivers any thing derogating from the honour of the one, only, true, invisible God, or inconsistent with natural religion and the rules of morality: because God having discovered to men the unity and majesty of his eternal Godhead, and the truths of natural religion and morality by the light of reason, he cannot be supposed to back the contrary by revelation; for that would be to destroy the evidence and the use of reason, without which men cannot...
الصفحة 4 - Temples have their sacred images, and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all universally pay a ready submission.