Encyclopaedia Bengalensis; or, A series of publications in English and Bengalee1849 |
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الصفحة 42 - 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 92 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
الصفحة 88 - ... 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. 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...
الصفحة 37 - Thus from every appearance in nature, and from every occurrence of life, you may derive natural, moral, and religious observations to entertain your minds, as well as rules of conduct in the affairs relating to this life and that which is to come.
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 17 - ... 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 17 - THER& are five eminent means or methods whereby the mind is improved in the knowledge of things ; and these are observation, reading, instruction by lectures, conversation, and meditation ; which last in a most peculiar manner, is called study.
الصفحة 18 - Reading is that means or method of knowledge whereby we acquaint ourselves with what other men have written, or published to the world in their writings. These arts of reading and writing are of infinite advantage ; for by them we are made partakers of...
الصفحة 90 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
الصفحة 6 - Let your meditations run ove. the names of all the sciences, with their numerous branchings, and innumerable particular themes of knowledge: and then reflect how few of them you are acquainted with in any tolerable degree. The most learned of mortals will never find occasion to...