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Page 38
Wit can never deviate from sense , but may very well exist without judgment . It is
even but too true that both are seldom found in company with each other .
Judgment is the offspring of slow , steady reflection ; wit is a flash , spends itself in
...
Wit can never deviate from sense , but may very well exist without judgment . It is
even but too true that both are seldom found in company with each other .
Judgment is the offspring of slow , steady reflection ; wit is a flash , spends itself in
...
Page 99
The mind is never led astray from the direct path , by divergent ideas arising
suddenly and naturally from the subject in contemplation . But its powers are
concentrated on a single one , of which it must be master before it can follow
another ...
The mind is never led astray from the direct path , by divergent ideas arising
suddenly and naturally from the subject in contemplation . But its powers are
concentrated on a single one , of which it must be master before it can follow
another ...
Page 119
This second branch of moral education ought never to begin but when the mind
has acquired a certain habit of comparing , analysing , and associating ideas ,
and not before the body has laid in a good stock of health and vigour . It ought ...
This second branch of moral education ought never to begin but when the mind
has acquired a certain habit of comparing , analysing , and associating ideas ,
and not before the body has laid in a good stock of health and vigour . It ought ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Enquirer: Or, Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository ..., Volume 1 |
| Editors | William Marrat, Pishey Thompson |
| Publisher | Whittingham and Rowland., 1811 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Jun 2007 |
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