An Essay on Education: In which are Particularly Considered the Merits and Defects of the Discipline and Instruction in Our Academies, Volumen2

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F. and C. Rivington, ... By Bye and Law, 1802
 

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Página 189 - the only science, which is equally and indispensably necessary to men of every rank, every age, and every profession. Admit the authenticity of the Bible, and the principal...
Página 190 - The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue.
Página 202 - Let every soul be subject to the higher powers, for the powers that be are ordained of God...
Página 184 - ... cannot decide for it on principles of natural theology, will not decide against it, on principles of good policy.
Página 203 - ... not understand what you have endeavoured to teach; or he will conclude that what it requires so much argument to support may possibly be erroneous or false. He may be led to adopt the dangerous and ruinous notions, that he is not bound to believe more than can be...
Página 246 - ... and his conduct; and by, his learning, his prudence, and his humanity excite in the minds of his pupils the higheft ambition of his approbation, and a proportionate fear of his difpleafure. But beyond thefe precautions his moral influence cannot eafily be extended ; and when the...
Página 59 - The real motive of the writers is, probably, nothing more than the contemptible affectation of superior learning ; but the practice has an obvious tendency to corrupt the purity and destroy the character of our English diction, and as far as it is in the power of novelists to effect it, to reduce us to babble a...
Página 223 - ... of their comfort and convenience. Of this, indeed, the ill effects are neither few nor inconfiderable. " A favourite fon is feldom beloved by his brothers; and ftill more feldom feels any fincere love for them ; and thus one of the...
Página 150 - ... of equal severity and caprice. They are in their own nature vulgar and offensive, and being received as indignities, never fail to excite the resentment of the sufferers.
Página 59 - ... their time and attention upon them. The authors of others seem ambitious, on every occasion, to introduce, not only foreign idioms and phraseology, and the inflated efflorescence of Gallic oratory, but such colloquial...

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