Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to WomenWm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1851 - 464 pagine |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 100
Pagina xi
... knowledge . Our knowledge of it mostly relative . — Value of truth recognized in physical science ; why less fully on other questions . —- Influ- ence of opinion , and consequent duty of forming sound opinions . Christians especially ...
... knowledge . Our knowledge of it mostly relative . — Value of truth recognized in physical science ; why less fully on other questions . —- Influ- ence of opinion , and consequent duty of forming sound opinions . Christians especially ...
Pagina xii
... knowledge . — The key to self - improvement ; not difficult to attain when honestly sought . Self - correction impos- sible without it ; causes of self - delusions . Self - examination must be habitual . - Method of self - examination ...
... knowledge . — The key to self - improvement ; not difficult to attain when honestly sought . Self - correction impos- sible without it ; causes of self - delusions . Self - examination must be habitual . - Method of self - examination ...
Pagina xiv
... knowledge . CHAPTER XII . LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE Desire of knowledge ; a natural impulse requires cultivation . - Its influence on the mind . - Low state in the present day . - Knowledge thought useless when it brings no worldly advantage ...
... knowledge . CHAPTER XII . LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE Desire of knowledge ; a natural impulse requires cultivation . - Its influence on the mind . - Low state in the present day . - Knowledge thought useless when it brings no worldly advantage ...
Pagina 8
... knowledge for some- thing more than its market value , to feel that expansion of soul that earnest natures feel when some new aspect of truth is re- vealed to them ? Or , in this age of liberalism , are they taught what man really owes ...
... knowledge for some- thing more than its market value , to feel that expansion of soul that earnest natures feel when some new aspect of truth is re- vealed to them ? Or , in this age of liberalism , are they taught what man really owes ...
Pagina 11
... knowledge , but to its whole scope and purpose . These require to be cor- rected and enlarged before knowledge itself could produce its proper effects ; and the greater the pretension of the system . now in vogue , the more reprobation ...
... knowledge , but to its whole scope and purpose . These require to be cor- rected and enlarged before knowledge itself could produce its proper effects ; and the greater the pretension of the system . now in vogue , the more reprobation ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to Women Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey,Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff Visualizzazione completa - 1851 |
Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to Women Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey,Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff Visualizzazione completa - 1854 |
Thoughts on Self Culture, Addressed to Women, Volume 2 Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey,Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff Visualizzazione completa - 1850 |
Parole e frasi comuni
action affection Archbishop Whately arise attain attention beauty become cation cause character Christian common conscience consequences consider contemplation cultivation daily Dugald Stewart duty earnest emotions erally error evidence evil excitement exer exercise exertion existence facts faculties feeling fluence frivolous give habits happiness heart higher human ignorance imagination important impulse indolence influence intellectual irreligion judgment labor language latter less ligion Lord Bacon love of truth marriage mathematical proof means memory ment mental method mind mode moral moral certainty motives Natural Philosophy nature necessary neglect ness never object opinions ourselves passion perhaps persons pleasure position practical prejudices principles proof purest feelings pursuits quired reason regard relations religion religious result Scripture self-control sense social society sound opinions spirit syllogism sympathy things thought tion tone true uncon virtue weak whole woman women words worldly young