Watts - BX5200 .W3 1813 v.8

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND. PART I. CáarrnR L General Rules for the Improvement of Knowledge - II. Observation, Reading, Instruction by Lectures, Conversation 7 and Study compared 18 III. Rules relating to Observation - 16 IV. Of Books and Reading 31 V. Judgment of Books 40 VI. Of Living, Instructions and Lectures of Teachers and Learners 40 VII. Of Learning a Language - - 51 VIII, Of Enquiring the Sense of Writers, &c. especially the Sacred Writings 58. IX. Rules of Improvement by Conversation 61 X. Of Disputes - 72 XI. Of the Socratical Way of Disputation 81 XII. Of Forensic Disputes 83 XHI. Of Academic or Scholastic Disputation 85 XIV. Of Study or Meditation 92 XV. Of Fixing the Attention 101 XVI. Of Enlarging the Capacity of the Mind - - 107 XVII. Of Improving the Memory - - 116 XVIII. Of Determining a Question - - - - 173 XIX. Of Enquiring into Causes and Effects - - - 146 XX. Of the Sciences, and their Use in particular Professions' 149 PART II. COMMUNICATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Cuanta I. Methods of Teaching and Reading Lectures - 171 II. Of an Instructive Style 177 IIÍ. Of Convincing Persons of Truth and delivering them from Errors 181 IV. Of Authority, its Abuse and Uses - 187 V. Of Treating the Prejudices of Men - 194 VI. Of Instruction by Preaching - 200 VII. Of Writing Books for the Public - 209 VIII. Of Writing and Reading Controverbas 212

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