The Dignity of Human Nature; Or, A ... Certain ... Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence

Of Promifers

Of Prudence in cafe of being obliged to flop Payments

Of the Connections between the different Parts of Men's Cha-

racters

Of Marriage, and Directions for proceeding in a judicious

Manner in that important Concern

SECT. VII.

Of the Management of Children

Of the bodily Infirmities of Children

'SECT. VIII.

Of the peculiar Management of Daughters, and Education

proper for them

SECT. IX.

Of placing out Youth, intended for Business

Of retiring from Business, and Requifites for making Retire-

ment agreeable

Of Old Age, and Requifites for paffing through it, and bearing

its Infirmities with Dignity

SECT. XV.

Of the Dignity of Female Life, prudentially confidered

Two Hundred Mifcellaneous Directions on Prudence in Action 98

BOOK II

Of KNOWLEDGE.

Knowledge valuable, though not a Subject of Vanity

Immenfe Difference between an improved and an uncultivated

Mind

The Improvement of the Mind by Knowledge an indifpenfable

Part of our Duty

Human Knowledge, fcanty as it is, truly admirable

Defpifers of Knowledge the Disgrace of the Species

Of Education from Infancy, and neceffity of laying the Foun-

dation of all Improvements in the Knowledge of Morality

Objection anfwered

Of Moral Principles fit to be eftablished in the Minds of Chil-
dren at three or four Years of Age

129

132

ib.

Efay toward a Method of inftructing Youth in Morals and Re-
ligion at private Places of Education

ib.

Of Exciting in them a Defire to understand Holy Scripture

Intention and Method of Education in Human Learning

Plan of Education from fix Years of Age to the finishing of the

Queries on the Conflitution and Method in certain Places of
Education

Concurrence of the Parents neceffary

SECT. III.

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Procefs of Education from four Years of Age; and first, of

Grammar and Latin

Of French, and proper Books recommended

Of Latin Authors proper to be read from the beginning to

twelve Years of Age

Of Writing and Arithmetic, and proper Books

Of Geometry, and proper Books

Of the Greek Language, and proper Authors

Of Latin Authors proper to be read from twelve or fourteen

Years of Age and upwards

Of improving their Elocution

Of giving them a Tincture of the Principles of Criticism

Of Book-keeping

Of the Knowledge of the Globes, and Geography and proper

Books

Of Algebra, and proper Books

Of Chronology, and Rudiments of History

Of rational Logic

Of Experimental Philofophy, and proper Books and Apparatus 155

Of Dancing, Fencing, and other ornamental Accomplishments 156

SECT. IV.

Of Manly Studies, or those Improvements which a Gentleman

must carry on by himself, after the finishing of his Education,

and preparatory Books

Importance of getting early into a good Method of Study

Of Hiftory, Biography, Theory of Government, Law, Com-

merce, Oeconomics, and Ethics, and proper Books

Great Advantages of the Study of History and Biography; and

Authors, ancient and modern

Of Ecclefiaftical History, and proper Books

Of the Theory of Government and Law, and proper Books

Of Commerce, and proper Books

Of the Human Mind, and proper Books

Of Oeconomics, and proper Books

Of Ethics, and proper Books

ib.

169

170

Of Phyfiology, or the Knowledge of Nature, Advantages of that

Study

Of the higher Parts of pure Mathematics, and proper Backs

Of the Newtonian Philofophy

General Lift of Books on the various Parts of Natural Philo-
Sophy, and Mixt Mathematics

Apparatus for Experimental Philofophy

ib.

ib.

Of forming a Tafte in polite Learning and Arts

180

Error

Error in carrying this to Excefs

Page 181

Extravagant Admiration of the Ancients to the unjust Difpa-
ragement of the Moderns

General Lift of the Writers in the Belles Lettres, and polite

Arts, ancient and modern

Of Travel, its Ufe, and Perversion

SECT. VI.

SECT. VII.

Of the comparative Importance of the various Branches of

Knowledge, refpectively, and with regard to different Ranks

and Stations in Life

SECT. VIII.

Cautions against the common Errors in Study, and first, Of

Over-reading

Of too confined Studies

Of pursuing Studies inconfiftent with one another at the fame

ib.

Of Reading for Amusement only.

Of knowing the Extent of one's natural Abilities

Of the Effects of People's natural Tempers upon their Improve-

ment

Of a Turn to difputing without fufficient Funds of Knowledge

Of Partial Reading

Of the chief Hindrances to Improvement

Of Unfteadiness in Opinion

Of Declamatory Writers

Directions for examining difficult and complex Subjects

Clearness of moral Subjects compared with fcientific

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That the chief Dignity of Human Nature confifts in Man's

being a moral Agent

Our Faculties fafely trufted, and not to be doubted by us

Certainty attainable in Morals, as well as other Subjects

Certainty attainable by Senfation, Intuition, Deduction, Tefti-

mony, and Revelation

All Evidence finally refolvable into Intuition

All Truths alike certain; but not alike obvious

Recapitulation of the above Reasonings on Certainty