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" ... supple and his natural parts not any way inferior. The legs of a dancing-master and the fingers of a musician fall as it were naturally without thought or pains into regular and admirable motions. Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain... "
THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE - Page 195
by J. JOHNSON - 1801
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Posthumous Works

John Locke - Commonplace-books - 1706 - 352 pages
...change their Parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the Members not ufed to them, and it will require length of Time and long Practice to attain but fome degrees of a like Ability* What incredible and aftonifhing Actions do we find Rope-dancers and...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 554 pages
...change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not ufed to them, and it will require length of time and long practice to attain but fome degrees of a like ability. What incredible and aftonifhing actions do we find rope-dancers and...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the ..., Volumes 1-3

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 986 pages
...change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not ulsd to them, and it will require length of time and long practice to attain but forne degrees of a like ability. What incredible an d aftonifliing a£Uons do we find rope-dancers...
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The conduct of the understanding

John Locke - 1801 - 168 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions .in .the members not used to them, and it wilL require length of time and long practice to attaitf but seme degrees of a like ability. What incredible and astonishing actions do we find rope-dancer*...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of ...

John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...time and long praftice to attain but fome degrees of a like ability. What incredible and aftonifhmg actions do we find rope-dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to ! Not but that fundry in almoft all manual arts are as wonderful-, but I name thofe which the world takes notice of...
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Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke

John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...Bid them change their parts and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time...world takes notice of for such, because on that very account, they give money to see them. AH these admired motions beyond the reach and almost the conception...
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The Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1802 - 184 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and C f 7 will in vain endeavour to produce like Motions in the memhers not used to them, and it will require length of time and long practice to attain hut some degrees of a like ahility. What incredihle and astonishing actions do we find rope-dancers...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 508 pages
...used to them, and it will rfe^Uift length. of time arid long practice to attain but Some tie* grees of a like ability. What incredible and astonishing: actions do we find rope-dancers attd tumblers bring their bodies to ! Not but that sundry, in almost all nrtftual arts, are ag Wonderful...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time...not but that sundry in almost all manual arts are $S wonderful; but I name those which the world takes notice of for such, because on that very account...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time and long practice to attain but some degrees of alike ability. \Vhat incredible and astonishing actions do •we find rope-dancers and tumblers bring...
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