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The conduct of the understanding. To which is prefixed, a sketch of the life ... - Page 19
by John Locke - 1812
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The conduct of the understanding

John Locke - 1801 - 168 pages
...his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting oh the rule, and yea may a* well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore...consists. This being so, that defects and weakness iti mens" understandings, as well as other faculties, tome from want of a right use of their own miad*...
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THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE

J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the ride; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician,...arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so,...
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The Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1802 - 184 pages
...up in his memory ; practice must settle the hahit of doing without reflecting on the rule, and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore hy a lecture and instruction in the arts of music, and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician,...arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so,...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 508 pages
...up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing; without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician,...a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting1, as a coherent thinker, or a strict Teasone-r, by a set of. rules, showing him wherein right...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting oh the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician...that defects and weakness in men's understandings, as \vell as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds, I am apt to think the fault...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule. And you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician...music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasouer by a set of rules, shewing him wherein right reasoning consists. As therefore defects and...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 448 pages
...arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so, that defects and weakness in men's understand* ings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds, I am...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. Analysis ...

John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...up in his memory; practjce must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruclion in the arts of music and painting, ns a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoncr, by a set...
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The British review and London critical journal

1818 - 574 pages
...the rule ; and you may as well expect to make a good painter or musician, extempore, by a lecture or instruction in the arts of music and painting, as...coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reason consists." — " Would you have a man reason well, you must use him...
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