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.

Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    / T H E'* ( PREFACE. ’T' H E prefent Treatife, if it may affume the honour of that name, is made up of a variety of remarks and directions for the improvement of the mind in ufeful knowledge. It was collected from the obfervations I which I had made on my own ftudies, and on the temper and fentiments, the humour and conduCt of other men in their purfmt of learning, or in the affairs of life; and it has been considerably affiled by occafional col- lections in the courfe of my reading, from many authors and on different fubjeCts. I confefs in far the greatelt part I Hand bound in anfwer for the A 2 weak-