The improvement of the mind : containing a variety of remarks and rules for the attainment and communication of useful knowledge in religion, in the sciences, and in common life / by I. Watts.

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MDCCLXXXV [1785]
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    *9 years of life and ftudy, call yourfelves to an account what new ideas, what new propor- tion or truth you have gained, what furthei: Confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge ; and let no day, if poffible, pafs away without home intellectual gain : fuch a courfe well purfued mu ft certainly advance us in ufeful knowledge. It is a wife pro- verb among the learned, borrowed from the lips and practice of a celebrated painter “ nulla dies fine lined let no day pafs with- out one line al leaft : and it was a facred rule among the Pythagoreans, that they fhould every evening thrice run over the aft ions and affairs of the day, and examine what their conduft: hath been, what they had done, or what they have neglefted ; and they allured their pupils, that by this method they would make a noble progrefs in the path of virtue. Mri<f ’j&vov jj.oc>,a.xo7(Tiv Ik oy.y.u<ri zrfecrJ' npli/ TU'J ri[jt.spflwv EpyCdV Tpk IXudlO’J etteA-9'£(V* fly! 7rapjb?iv ; tj a epe^u ; ti y.ot o~:ov ou>c ?T£M<r«jr, j Txjtu <T£ T7J? Cl ' •)-../ o / crgr/1? up?t?,j £i? f/viu Nor let foft {lumber clofe your ej^es* Before you’ve recollefted thrice