The Chinese a General Description of the Empire of China And Its Inhabitants
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Dr. Morrison has given a curious account, from original sources, of the rules which govern native scholars in the prosecution of their studies. The first thing needful is " to form a resolution, " and this resolution is valuable in proportion as it is firm and persevering. It is received as a maxim, that ' the object on which a determined resolution rests must succeed " The student is directed to keep by him a commonplace book, and daily to record in it what he reads ; then at intervals of ten ...or twenty days to recapitulate and con over what he has before learned ; " thus the lover of learning daily acquires new ideas, and does not lose those he already pos- sesses. " The scholar who does not rouse all his energies is told to consider how he is to get tlirough his task, when locked up with nothing but pencils, ink, and paper, at the public examination. " Should RULES FOR STUDY. 149 a theme be there given him which he camiot manage let him reflect what his distress will be. " When a man is reading a particular section of a work, he is directed, in this treatise on the conduct of the understanding, to give up his whole mind to that alone, arifl on no account to let it be diverted for the time by any other subject.
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