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" Just so it is in the mind ; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should... "
Sir Isaac Newton's Two Treatises: Of the Quadrature of Curves, and Analysis ... - Page viii
by Isaac Newton - 1745 - 479 pages
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Posthumous Works

John Locke - Commonplace-books - 1706 - 352 pages
...Pains in fafhioning and forming his Hand or outward Parts to thefe motions. Juft fo it is in the Mind, would you have a Man reafon well, you muft ufe him to it betimes, exercife his Mind in obfervingthe Connection of Ideas and followr ing them in train, Nothing does this better than Mathematicks...
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The Elements of Logick: In Four Books ... Design'd Particularly for Young ...

William Duncan - Logic - 1748 - 380 pages
...fafhioning and foiming " his Hand, or outward Parts, to thefe Motions. " Juft fo it is in the Mind ; would you have a " Man reafon well, you muft ufe him to it be" times, exercife his Mind in observing the Con** neclion of Ideas, and following them in train....
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Miscellanea Curiosa Mathematica: Or, The Literary Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Francis Holliday - Mathematics - 1749 - 360 pages
...Locke. Would you have a man reafon well, fays he, you muft exercife his. mind in obferving the connexion of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore, I diink, mould be taught all thofe who have time and opportunity ; not...
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The preceptor: containing a general course of education [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Preceptor - 1758 - 590 pages
...fafhioning and forming " his Hand, or outward Parts, to thcfe Motions. Juft fo it " is in the Mind ; would you have a Man reafon well, you *' muft ufe...following them in train. " Nothing does this better than Mathematics, which there*' fore I think fhould be taught all thofe, who have the Time " and Opportunity,...
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The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein ..., Volume 2

Robert Dodsley - Education - 1758 - 586 pages
...it V is in the Mind; would you have a Man reafon well, you *' muft ufc him to it betimes, exercsfe his Mind in obferving •" the Connection of Ideas,...following them in train. " Nothing does this better than Mathematics, which therc*' fore I think fhould be taught all thofe, who have the Time *' and Opportunity,...
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A New Introduction to the Mathematicks: Being Essays on Vulgar and Decimal ...

Benjamin Donne - Algebra - 1758 - 428 pages
...Hand, or outward Parts, to thefe Motions. Juft fo M it is in the Mind ; would you have a Man reafon, you muft " ufe him to it betimes, exercife his Mind in obferving the Con" neftion of Ideas, and following them in Train. Nothing does " this better than Mathematics; whiph...
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The Elements of Logick: In Four Books

William Duncan - Logic - 1770 - 380 pages
...fafliioning and . ** for miRg his Hand, or outward Parts, to thefe v Motions. Juft foitisin the Mind; would you. " have a Man reafon well, you muft ufe...to " it betimes, exercife his Mind in obferving the * l Connection of Ideas, and following them in " train.. Nothing does this better than Mathe« maticks...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 554 pages
...in fafhioning and forming his hand, or outward parts, to thefe motions. Juft fo it is in the mind ; would you have a man reafon well, you muft ufe him to it betimes, exercife his mind in obferving the connexion of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics ; which,...
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An essay on mechanical geometry, explanatory of a set of models

Benjamin Donne - 1796 - 120 pages
...habituates the mind. " Would you have a man reafon, (fays Mr. Locke, in his Eflay on human underflanding) you muft ufe him to it betimes ; exercife his mind in obferving the connection * Mr. Locke thought fo little of Rhetoric and Lo%ic, in conducing to make a good realbner, that in...
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The conduct of the understanding

John Locke - 1801 - 168 pages
...; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity,...
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