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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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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members to all shapes, except her ; bat 1 name those which the world takes notice of for such, because, on that very account, they give...
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Our Thrones and Crowns: Or: The Golden Way to the Highest Attainments. A ...

James Henry Potts - Philosophy and religion - 1889 - 806 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavor 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. All these admired motions, beyond the reach, and almost the conception,...
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The Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1891 - 104 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavor to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time...ability. What incredible and astonishing actions do we fiin' rope-dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to 1 Not but that sundry in almost all manual arts...
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Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of ...

John Locke - 1894 - 604 pages
...parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them, anci it will require length of time and long practice to...actions do we find rope.dancers and tumblers bring theu. bodies to ! Not but that sundry in almost all manual art? are as wonderful; but I name those...
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Essays of British Essayists, Including Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

English essays - 1900 - 492 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavor 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. All these admired motions, beyond the reach, and almost the conception,...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7

David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 468 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavor to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time...What incredible and astonishing actions do we find rope dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to! Not but that sundry in almost all manual arts are...
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Locke's Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1900 - 172 pages
...their parts, and they will in vain endeavor to produce like motions in the members not used to them, 15 and it will require length of time and long practice...What incredible and astonishing actions do we find rope dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to; not but that sundry in almost all manual arts are...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 7

David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavor to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time...What incredible and astonishing actions do we find rope dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to! Not but that sundry in almost all manual arts are...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 7

David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1908 - 454 pages
...degrees of a like ability. What incredible and astonishing actions do we find rope dancers and tumbler? bring their bodies to! Not but that sundry in almost all manual arts are as wonderful, but I name thr^e which the world ta!:es notice of for such, because, on that very r-.ccount, they give money to...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 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. All these admired motions, beyond the reach and almost conception...
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