Outlines of Philosophical Education Illustrated by the the Method of Teaching the Logic Class in the University of GlasgowFor Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1825 - 527 ページ |
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254 ページ - the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and
234 ページ - directing what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, and thereby founding, upon the basis of principle, a distinction between good and bad taste.
198 ページ - Is aught so fair, In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the morn, In nature's fairest forms,—is aught so fair As virtuous friendship?
294 ページ - He that has for some time accustomed himself to take up what easily offers itself at first view, has reason to fear, he shall never reconcile himself to the fatigue of turning and tumbling things in his mind, to discover their more retired and more valuable secrets.
249 ページ - de concevoir tout ce qui les porte à penser et à sentir autrement que nous. Les mathématiques induisent à ne tenir compte que de ce qui est prouvé ; tandis que les vérités primitives, celles que le sentiment et le génie saisissent ne sont pas susceptibles de
248 ページ - inseparable from its study. It may seem too much a paradox to say, that long habit in this science incapacitates the mind for reasoning at large, and especially in the search of moral truth. And yet I believe nothing is more certain. The object of geometry is demonstration. Its subject admits of it, and
324 ページ - Suppose, for example, he proposes, as an object of investigation, to discover the state of Egypt in respect to government, science, and art, in the time of Moses, and the only datum given him is this single fact— that fine linen existed in Egypt at that
343 ページ - wit. Mr. Young is very old in Aristotle. Mr. Reid need not be red with blushing for his acting to-day. Mr. King disputed very kingly, and of a kingly purpose, anent the royal supremacy of reason over anger and all passions.
16 ページ - been made in universities, though some, no doubt, have. The greater part of universities have not been very forward to adopt those improvements after they were made; and several of these learned societies have chosen,
294 ページ - a weight too heavy, has often its force broken, and thereby gets an inaptness, or an aversion to any vigorous attempt ever afterwards." In the same essay he observes, that too easy tasks