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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    tic himfelf in philological matters, he ffiould be frequently converting with thofe books, whether dictionaries, paraphrafts, commen- tators, or other critics, which may relieve any difficulties he meets with, and give him a more exaCt acquaintance with thofe ftudies which he purfues. And whenfoever any perlon is arrived to fiich a degree of knowledge in thefe things as to furnifh him well for the practice of criticifm, let him take great care that pride and vanity, contempt of others, with inward wrath and infolence, do not mingle them- felves with his remarks and cenfures. Let him remember the common frailties of hu- man nature, and the miftakes to which the wifeft man is fometimes liable, that he may praCtife this art with due modeftyand candour. THE END.