A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . orce of the Obitacles, that are to be overcome! It requiresTranquillity without Indolence, and a long Habit of re-flecting upon what palfes in the World, and comparingEvents with their Caufes. Few People can rightly judge of Things, without ex-aggerating the Facility or the Difficulty, according asDefireor Fear prevails in them. Men are ufed from their early Years Sect. II
A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . orce of the Obitacles, that are to be overcome! It requiresTranquillity without Indolence, and a long Habit of re-flecting upon what palfes in the World, and comparingEvents with their Caufes. Few People can rightly judge of Things, without ex-aggerating the Facility or the Difficulty, according asDefireor Fear prevails in them. Men are ufed from their early Years Sect. II. the ^rf of T hij^kij^g. 491 Years to decide a great many Things which they never exa-mined, and which are wholly or very imperfeftly knownto them. Thofe Decilions proceed from Paflion. Reafonhas hardly any (hare in them. According as a Man is boldand daring, or timorous and wary, according as he is in-clined or averfe to a Propolition, he looks out for Argu-ments to prove or rejed it. Thofe Arguments are fiotdrawn from the Knowledge of the Subjcd, but from Paf-iion. The Realbnings of moft People difcover only theThing in Favour of which they are prejudiced, withoutclearing it. The End of ?/;^ F i r s t V o l u m BOOKS frlnted for ^ and fold by ThomasWoodward at the Half-Moon over-agahift St. DunllanV Church in Fleet-Street. FOLIO. J OH ANN IS Seldeni Juris Confulti Opera omnia, tarn Editaquam Inedita, in Tribus Voluminibus. Collegit ac recenfuit, vi-tani Autoris,Praefationes& Indices adjedtD;i^7</ Wdkins, Canonicus Cantuarienlis, Reverendiflimo in Chriflo Patri acDomino Domino Guilidmo, DivinaProvidenda, ArchiepifcopoCantua-rienfi, Sec, a Sacris Domedicis 8c Biblioth. The Hiftory oF the Conqueft of Mexico by the Spaniards. Adornedwith Maps and Cuts, engraved by the beft Hands. The Head ofCortez, (done from a Painting of Titian,) by Mr. Vetue. Tran-flated from the Original Spam/Jj of Don Antonio de Solis, Secretaryand Hiftoriographer to his Catholick Majefty. Th
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