The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... ftate of body , and still more an improper treatment , the rendering the child , in any confiderable degree , either the tyrant or the flave of thofe around him , may in the first twelvé months implant feeds of an ill temper , which in ...
... ftate of body , and still more an improper treatment , the rendering the child , in any confiderable degree , either the tyrant or the flave of thofe around him , may in the first twelvé months implant feeds of an ill temper , which in ...
Page 94
... ought to purfuc , to ftate their reasons , and proceed to a fair and equal examination of the subject . If If this mode of proceeding can ever be fa- lutary 94 Part I : Of Reafoning and Contention . Of Reasoning and Contention.
... ought to purfuc , to ftate their reasons , and proceed to a fair and equal examination of the subject . If If this mode of proceeding can ever be fa- lutary 94 Part I : Of Reafoning and Contention . Of Reasoning and Contention.
Page 96
... ftate with force a whole series of arguments , and then be obliged to quit the field with difgrace , and fol- low at the chariot - wheels of my antagonist . But the cafe is in reality worse than this . The child may be unprejudiced and ...
... ftate with force a whole series of arguments , and then be obliged to quit the field with difgrace , and fol- low at the chariot - wheels of my antagonist . But the cafe is in reality worse than this . The child may be unprejudiced and ...
Page 97
... ftates , when you are both able and will- ing to treat the neighbour - ftate as a conquered province . Place me in the condition of a flave , I shall perhaps be able to endure it . Human nature is capable of accommodating itself to a ...
... ftates , when you are both able and will- ing to treat the neighbour - ftate as a conquered province . Place me in the condition of a flave , I shall perhaps be able to endure it . Human nature is capable of accommodating itself to a ...
Page 113
... ftate of man , or the reasonings of man . They are totally incapable of all found and refpectable judgment ; and you might as well talk to your horfe as to them , of any thing that required the genuine exercise of human faculties . The ...
... ftate of man , or the reasonings of man . They are totally incapable of all found and refpectable judgment ; and you might as well talk to your horfe as to them , of any thing that required the genuine exercise of human faculties . The ...
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