 | David Hartley - 1801 - 480 sider
...what playthings are to children; they teach them a love for regularity, exactnefs, truth, fimplicity ; they lead them to the knowledge of many important truths relating to themfelves, the external world, and its author ; they habituate to invent, and reafon by analogv and... | |
 | Maynard Davis Richardson, William Gilmore Simms - 1833 - 304 sider
...what playthings are to ehildren: they teaeh them a love for regularity, exaetness, truth, simplieity; they lead them to the knowledge of many important...They habituate to invent and reason by analogy, and induetion; and when the soeial, moral and religious affeetions begin to be generated in man. we may... | |
 | David Hartley - 1834 - 670 sider
...perfecting our natures. They are to men in the early part of \ their adult age, what playthings are to children ; they teach them / a love for regularity,...begin to be generated in us, we may make / a much quicker progress towards the perfection of our natures by having a due stock, and no more than a due... | |
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The pleasures of imagination are the next remove above the sensible ones, and have, in their proper place and degree, a great efficacy in improving and perfecting our natures. They are to men in the early part of \ their adult age, what playthings are... 