 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1736 - 400 pages
...DemonItration, and to diftinguifh between Truth and Falfhood. Something of thefe Sciences mould be ftudied by every Man, who pretends to Learning, and that (as Mr. Locke exprefles it) not fo much to make us Mathematicians, as to make us reafonable Creatures. We fhould... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1755 - 390 pages
...ftration, and to diftinguifh between Truth and Falthood. Something of thefe Sciences mould be ftudied by every Man who pretends to Learning, and that (as Mr. Locke exprefles it) not fo much to make us Mathematicians, as to make us reafenable Creatures. We mould gain... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1763 - 400 pages
...Demonftration, and to diftinguifh between Truth and Falfhood. Something of thefe Sciences mould be ftudied by every Man who pretends to Learning, and that (as Mr. Locke exprefies it) not fo much to make make us Mathematicians, as to make us rcafonable Creatures, We fhould... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1792 - 340 pages
...demonftration, and to diftinguifh between truth and faHhood. Something of thefe fciences fhould be ftudied by every man who pretends to learning, and that, as Mr Locke exprefies it, not fo much to make us mathematicians, as to make us reafonable creatures. We fhould... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1797 - 338 pages
...demonflration, ar.d to diftinguifh between truth and falfehood. Something of thefe fciences fliould be ftudied by every man who pretends to learning, and that, as Mr Locke exprtfles it, not fo much to make us matbematicians, as to make us reafonable creatures. i. We fhouid... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1801 - 342 pages
...teach us to conceive with clearness, to connect our ideas and propositions in a train of dependence, to reason with strength and demonstration, and to distinguish between truth and falshood. Something of these sciences should be studied by every man who pretends to learning, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1802 - 472 pages
...dif" tingnifh between truth and falfhood. *' Something of thefe fciences fhotUd be " ftudied " ftudied by every man who pretends to " learning, and that," as Mr. Locke expreffes it, " notfo much to make us mathema*' ticians, as to make us reafonable creatures. " The... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1802 - 324 pages
...demonftration, and to diftinguifh between truth and falfehood. Something of thefe fciences fliould be lludicd by every man who pretends to learning, and that (as Mr Locke exprefles it) not fo much to make us mathematicians, as to make us reafonable creatures. We fhould... | |
 | Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...demonftration, and to diftinguim between truth and falmood. Something of thefe fcienc^s mould be ftudied by every man who pretends to learning, and that, as Mr. Locke exprefles it, " not io much to make us mathematicians, as to make us reufonable creatures."—Watts.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 320 pages
...teach us to conceive with clearness, to connect our ideas and propositions in train of dependence, to reason with strength and demonstration, and to...mathematicians, as to make us reasonable creatures. We should gain such a familiarity with evidence of perception and force of reasoning, and get such... | |
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... if there were nothing valuable in them for the uses of human life, yet the very speculative parts of this sort of learning are well worth our study ; for by perpetual examples they teach us to conceive with clearness, to connect our ideas... 
