| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 372 pages
...can be acquired only by practice, It is impossible that philosophical lectures can be of much service service to those who are not familiarly acquainted...the technical language in which they are delivered ; and yet there is scarcely any subject of human enquiry more. obvious to the understanding, than the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1811 - 528 pages
...must have an instantaneous idea excited in our minds whenever they are repeated ; and, as this cart be acquired only by practice, it is impossible that...the technical language in which they are delivered ; and yet there is scarcely any subject of human inquiry more obvious to the understanding than the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1815 - 330 pages
...VOL. 11. 8 An itinerant lecturer seldom fails of having a numerous and attentive auditory ; and if he does not communicate much of that knowledge which...the technical language in which they are delivered ; and yet there is scarcely any subject of human inquiry more obvious to the understanding, than the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 526 pages
...science is taught, is an insuperable bar to its being suddenly acquired; besides a precise know, ledge of the meaning of terms, we must have an instantaneous...the technical language in which they are delivered; and yet there is scarcely any subject of human inquiry more obvious to the understanding than the laws... | |
| Great Britain - 1820 - 606 pages
...every body's hands, or that are absolutely necessary in the daily occupations of mankind." And again, " Ignorance of the language in which any science is...technical language in which they are delivered." It is for this reason that a point is made in this and the two succeeding classes to give the etymology and... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 612 pages
...instantaneous idea excited in our minds whenever they are repeated ; and as this can be acquired or.ly by practice, it is impossible that philosophical lectures...technical language in which they are delivered." It is for this reason that a point is made in this and the two succeeding classes to give the etymology and... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...to its being suddenly acquired; besides a precise knowledge of the meaning of terms, we must have M instantaneous idea excited in our minds whenever they...of these dialogues, in which the principal and most corn. won terms of science are carefully explained and itlustrated, by a variety of familiar examples,... | |
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