Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volumen2R. Cruttwell, 1802 |
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Página 34 - What perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, when he sees, hears, feels, &c. or thinks, than by any discourse of mine. Whoever reflects on what passes in his own mind, cannot miss it; and if he does not reflect, all the words in the world cannot make him have any notion of it.
Página 407 - What books do you read, and how do you employ your time and your pen ? Except some professed scholars, I have often observed that women in general read much more than men ; but, for want of a plan, a method, a fixed object, their reading is of little benefit to themselves or others.
Página 316 - The most pleasing arts of human invention are altogether directed to their pursuit : and even the necessary arts are exalted into dignity, by the genius that can unite beauty with use. From the earliest period of society, to its last stage of improvement, they afford an innocent and elegant amusement to private life, at the same time that they increase the splendour of...
Página 4 - Not only the actions, but even the opinions of men may sometimes give light into the frame of the human mind. The opinions of men may be considered as the effects of their intellectual powers, as their actions are the effects of their active principles. Even the prejudices and errors of mankind, when they are general, must have some cause no less general ; the discovery of which will throw some light upon the frame of the human understanding.
Página 8 - ... invention ; to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them ; to awaken their sensibilities to the beauties of nature, and to inspire them with a relish "for intellectual enjoyment ; — these form but a part of the business of education ; and yet the execution even of this part requires an acquaintance with the general principles of our nature, which seldom falls to the share of those to whom the instruction of...
Página 7 - To instruct youth in the languages and in the sciences is comparatively of little importance, if we are inattentive to the habits they acquire, and are not careful in giving to all their different faculties, and all their different principles of action, a proper degree of employment.
Página 316 - The qualities that produce these emotions, are to be found in almost every class of the objects of human knowledge, and the emotions themselves afford one of the most extensive sources of human delight. They occur to us, amid every variety of EXTERNAL scenery, and among many diversities of disposition and affection in the MIND of man. The...
Página 3 - We take it for granted, therefore, that, by attentive reflection, a man may have a clear and certain knowledge of the operations of his own mind ; a knowledge no less clear and certain, than that which he has of an external object when it is set before his eyes. This reflection is a kind of intuition...
Página 192 - ... always with it a mixture of concern and compassion. He only* promised me a loan of the book for two days. I was once thinking to have written a poem. 25. A very slow child will often be found to get lessons by heart as soon as, nay sometimes sooner, than one who is ten times as intelligent. It is then from a cultivation of the perceptive faculties, that we only can attain those powers of conception which are essential to taste. No man is fit for free conversation for the inquiry after truth,...
Página 47 - It is likewife unfortunately in the power of a foolifh nurfe to retard the natural progrefs of the mind, by perpetually interrupting its attention. A child that is much danced about, and much talked to, by a very lively nurfe, has many more ideas, than one that is kept by a filent and indolent perfon.