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The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. To which is Added, Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth

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F. & C. Rivington, 1801 - 396 pages

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Table des matières

THE introduction PACE	3

Five methods of improving defcribed and com	16

Of obfervation either by the fenfes or the mind	26

Of reading and books with directions relating	32

The judgment of books both approbation	42

Of living inftructions and lectures of teachers	53

Of enquiring into the fenfe and meaning	65

Of difputes and general rules relating to them	82

Of enlarging the capacity of the mind	120

Of the memory and the improvement thereof	136

prayers that a book fo admirably fuited to improve	149

Of enquiring into caufes and effects	171

THE introduction	201

Of an inftructive ftyle	209

The uſe and abuſe of authority	220

Of managing the prejudices of men	236

Of Socratical difputation by question and	92

Of ftudy or meditation and the final deter	106

Of fixing the attention	116

Of writing books for the public	248

A difcourfe on the education of children	257

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Titre	The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. To which is Added, Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth
Auteur	Isaac Watts
Éditeur	F. & C. Rivington, 1801
Original provenant de	l'Université de Virginie
Numérisé	11 déc. 2008
Longueur	396 pages

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