 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1820 - 748 pages
...the Conduct of the Human Understanding, has well observed, that 1 nobody has made any thing by the ' hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory...the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well ' expect to make a good painter or ' musician extempore, by a lecture or 1 instruction... | |
 | 1820 - 746 pages
...the Conduct of the Human Understanding, has well ob>erved, that " nobody has made any thing by the " hearing of rules, or laying them up " in his memory...the habit of doing without reflecting ' on the rule ; and you may as well ' expect to make a good painter or musician extempore, by a lecture or ' instruction... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 404 pages
...to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying...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 instruction... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1823 - 202 pages
...though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. No body is made any thing by hearing of rules or laying them...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 instruction... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the test precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying...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 instruction... | |
 | Stephen Laidler, James William Massie - Converts - 1827 - 440 pages
...spring of all this commotion. It has been observed by one whose authority few will question, " That nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying...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 instruction... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 432 pages
...to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying...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 instruction... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 422 pages
...to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying...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 instruction... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying...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 instruction... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...pine, you languish, love to be alone, Think much, speak little, and in speaking sigh. Drydea. No body is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them...up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit : you may as well hope to make a good musician by a lecture on the artofmusick, as a coherent thinker,... | |
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Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them 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, extempore, by a lecture and instruction... 
