PRINTED BY EDWARD BAINES;

FOR WILLIAM BAYNES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; THOMAS WILLIAMS AND SON,
STATIONERS' COURT ; THOMAS HAMILTON, PATERNOSTER - ROW; AND
JOSIAH CONDER, BUCKLERSBURY, LONDON.

1813.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.

THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND.

PART I.

CHAPTER I. General Rules for the Improvement of Knowledge

II. Observation, Reading, Instruction by Lectures, Conversation

and Study compared

III. Rules relating to Observation

V. Judgment of Books

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IV. Of Books and Reading

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VI. Of Living, Instructions and Lectures of Teachers and

Learners

VII. Of Learning a Language

VIII. Of Enquiring the Sense of Writers, &c. especially the

XX. Of the Sciences, and their Use in particular Professions

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PART II. COMMUNICATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

CHAPTER I. Methods of Teaching and Reading Lectures

II. Of an Instructive Style

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III. Of Convincing Persons of Truth and delivering them from

IV. Of Authority, its Abuse and Uses

V. Of Treating the Prejudices of Men

VI. Of Instruction by Preaching

VII. Of Writing Books for the Public

VIII. Of Writing and Reading Controversies

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