Liberal Education, Or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning, Volumen2C. Dilly, 1785 |
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Página 240 - Thefe ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature ; and if there were any fecret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itfelf by, which could not but mightily redound to the good of this nation, and bring into FASHION AGAIN THOSE OLD
Página 100 - be like him, as we may the neareft, by poflefling our fouls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes Up the HIGHEST PERFECTION.
Página 239 - of the year, when the air is calm and pleafant, it were an injury and fullennefs againil nature, not to go out and fee her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. I ihould not therefore be a perfuader to them of
Página 65 - to the young people of faihion of the ' prefent age, it is their lazinefs, or an extreme ' unwillingnefs to attend to any thing that can *• give them the lead trouble or difquietude ; without any degree of which they would fain enjoy all the luxuries of life, in contradiction to the difpofitions of Providence, and the nature of
Página 100 - parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him.
Página 230 - God has not been fo fparing to men, to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Ariftotle to make them rational.
Página 125 - into any college, he is obliged to be matriculated, or admitted a member of the univerfity ; at which time he fubfcribes the thirty-nine articles of religion, though often without knowing what he is doing, being ordered to write his name in a book, without mentioning upon what
Página 70 - Men and things *, not words, are magifterially pointed out as the proper objects of ftudy, by thofe who know little of men, things, or words. It is not the knowledge of books, fay they, which he is to purfue, but the knowledge of the world ; ignorant that the knowledge of books is neceflary to gain a valuable knowledge
Página 240 - to all the quarters of the land; learning and obferving all places of ftrength, all commodities of building and of foil, for towns and tillage, harbours, and ports for trade ; fometimes taking fea, as far as to our navy, to learn there alfo what they can
Página 68 - well upon the former life of thofe fewe, whether your example be old or young, who, without learning, have gathered, by long experience, a little wifdome, and