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... faculties , as the material and condition of an instrument of music with that wonderful result called melody.- W. B. Clulow . 12 . We must not proceed in forming the moral character as a statuary proceeds in forming a statue , who works ...
... faculties , as the material and condition of an instrument of music with that wonderful result called melody.- W. B. Clulow . 12 . We must not proceed in forming the moral character as a statuary proceeds in forming a statue , who works ...
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... faculties and the laws which govern them ; the other objectively , in the matter sub- mitted to our observations . We must believe in the being who knows , and in that which is known : knowledge is the copula of these two acts . Even ...
... faculties and the laws which govern them ; the other objectively , in the matter sub- mitted to our observations . We must believe in the being who knows , and in that which is known : knowledge is the copula of these two acts . Even ...
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... faculties we are born , and to whatever studies our genius may direct us , studies they must still be . I am persuaded that Milton did not write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour ...
... faculties we are born , and to whatever studies our genius may direct us , studies they must still be . I am persuaded that Milton did not write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour ...
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... faculties , is a powerful means of promoting their activity and growth . You seldom meet with persons of eminent capacity whose range of reflection has been chiefly restricted to one department . - W . B. Clulow . 138 . All labour and ...
... faculties , is a powerful means of promoting their activity and growth . You seldom meet with persons of eminent capacity whose range of reflection has been chiefly restricted to one department . - W . B. Clulow . 138 . All labour and ...
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... faculties , if they be not well advised , do exercise their faults and get ill habits as well as good ; so that there is a great judgment to be had in the continuance and intermission of exercises.- Bacon . 195 . They [ the mathematics ] ...
... faculties , if they be not well advised , do exercise their faults and get ill habits as well as good ; so that there is a great judgment to be had in the continuance and intermission of exercises.- Bacon . 195 . They [ the mathematics ] ...
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Términos y frases comunes
able acquire action Arnold atheism attained authority Bacon become believe better body causes character Chesterfield Christian Cicero common comprehension consider Danby defect Demosthenes doctrine doth effects endeavour Epictetus error evil excellent exercise experience faculties false fancy feelings free agency Fuller give God.-Dr habit happiness hath human ideas idols ignorance imagination imperfect influence intellect Jeremy Taylor judge judgment Junius knowledge language laws learning less Letters of Junius live mankind manner Mathematics matter maxim means mind moral natural philosophy nature negative proof ness never object observation opinions ourselves Parr passions perfect persons philosophy principles proof reason religion Roger Ascham S. T. Coleridge Samuel Johnson Scripture sense shew speak spirit Superstition teach thee things thou thought thyself tion true truth understanding vice virtue W. B. Clulow Whewell Whichcote wisdom wise words
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Página 39 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 135 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 153 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 31 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 12 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 12 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 132 - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Página 31 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 135 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 6 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.