The Improvement of the Mind
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The following pages contain the whole of the First Part of Dr. Watts sI mprovement of theM ind. This is believed to be sufficiently complete in itself, without theS econd Part, and more particularly suited to the capacities of Young Persons. Both Parts might render theW ork too expensive for many scholars, and thus exclude the whole from use. As this First Part was originally published in a separa...
MoreThe following pages contain the whole of the First Part of Dr. Watts sI mprovement of theM ind. This is believed to be sufficiently complete in itself, without theS econd Part, and more particularly suited to the capacities of Young Persons. Both Parts might render theW ork too expensive for many scholars, and thus exclude the whole from use. As this First Part was originally published in a separate volume, it is plain that the excellent Author did not consider it as having any indispensable connexion with theS econd. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit .D istrict Clerk sO ffice. 4vw4 BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighteenth day of 5N ovember, A. U. 1819, and in the forty-fifth year of the inde$ 1. Jpendence of the United States of A merica, JAMES LO- ..iw KING, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the title of aB ook, the right whereof he claims asP roprietor, in the words following, to wit: The Improvement of theM ind. By ISAAC WATTS, D.D. To which are added, Questions adapted to theW ork; for the use of Schools and A cademies. Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than Dr. Watts sI mprovement of theM ind ;of which the radical principles may indeed be found in Locke sC onduct of the Understanding ;but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer on him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others may be 6harged with deficiency in his dut if this book is not recommended. Dr. Johnson sL ife of Dr. Watts. In conformity to the A ct of the Congress of the United States, entitled, An A ct for theE ncouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned: and also to an A ct, entitled, An A ct supplementary to an A ct, entitled, An A ct for theE ncouragement of
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