The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes, المجلد 81813 |
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... particular Professions 149 PART II . COMMUNICATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE . CHAPTER I. Methods of Teaching and Reading Lectures II . Of an Instructive Style 172 177 Errors - - · III . Of Convincing Persons of Truth and delivering them from ...
... particular Professions 149 PART II . COMMUNICATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE . CHAPTER I. Methods of Teaching and Reading Lectures II . Of an Instructive Style 172 177 Errors - - · III . Of Convincing Persons of Truth and delivering them from ...
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... 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 act over again what is fabled of Alexander the Great , that when ...
... 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 act over again what is fabled of Alexander the Great , that when ...
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... particular subject in any science can- not be improved , merely because it has lain five hundred or a thousand years without improvement . The present age , by the blessing of God on the ingenuity and diligence of men , has brought to ...
... particular subject in any science can- not be improved , merely because it has lain five hundred or a thousand years without improvement . The present age , by the blessing of God on the ingenuity and diligence of men , has brought to ...
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... particular subject ; and thus save his disciples much time and pains , by shortening the labours of their closet and private studies . He can shew you what were the doctrines of the ancients in a compendium , which perhaps would cost ...
... particular subject ; and thus save his disciples much time and pains , by shortening the labours of their closet and private studies . He can shew you what were the doctrines of the ancients in a compendium , which perhaps would cost ...
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... particular persons , especially to their disad vantage , should for the most part lie hid in your own breast , till some just and apparent occasion , some necessary call of provi- dence lead you of speak of them . If the character or ...
... particular persons , especially to their disad vantage , should for the most part lie hid in your own breast , till some just and apparent occasion , some necessary call of provi- dence lead you of speak of them . If the character or ...
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الصفحة 7 - DEEPLY possess your mind with the vast importance of a good judgment, and the rich and inestimable advantage of right reasoning. Review the instances of your own misconduct in life; think seriously with yourselves how many follies and sorrows you had escaped, and how much guilt and misery you...
الصفحة 143 - Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
الصفحة 106 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
الصفحة 94 - If the mind apply itself at first to easier subjects and things near akin to what is already known, and then advance to the more remote and knotty parts of knowledge by slow degrees, it will be able in this manner to cope with great difficulties, and prevail over them with amazing and happy success.
الصفحة 65 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame unto him.
الصفحة 21 - ... maturity. 4. It is another advantage of reading, that we may review what we 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...
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.