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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 182 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=272gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 182 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=272gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: large on a point which they are supposed already to understand. If a rational man reads an excellent author wilh just application, he shall find himself extremely improved, and perhaps insensibly led to imitate that author's perfections, although in a little time he should not remember one word in the book, nor even the subject it handled: for, books give the same turn to our thoughts and way of reasoning, that good and ill company does to our behaviour and conversation; without either loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. An4 particularly I have observed in preaching, that no men succeed better, than those who trust entirely to. the stock or fund of their own reason, advanced indeed, but not overlaid by commerce with books. Whoever only reads in order transcribe wise and shining remarks, without entering into the genius arid spirit of the author, as it is probable he will make no very judicious extract, so he will be apt to trust to that collection in all his compositions, and be misled out of the regular way of thinking, iu order to introduce those materials, which he has been at the pains to gather: and the product of all, this, -will be found a manifest incoherent piece of patchwork. Some gentlemen, abounding in their university erudition, are apt to fill their sermons with philosophical terms, and notions of the metaphysical or abstracted kind; which generally have one advantage, to be equally understood by the wise, the vulgar, and the preacher himself. I have been better entertained, and more informed by a few pages in the Pilgrim's Progress, than by a long discourse upon the will and the intellect, and simple or complex ideas. Others again are fond of dilating u matter and motion, talk of the fortuitous concourse of atoms, of theories, and p...<

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… More...

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