 ... and practice. I do not deny that natural disposition may often give the first rise to it ; but that never carries a man far without use and exercise, and it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind as well as those of the body to their...  THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE - Page 196by J. JOHNSON - 1801Full view - About this book
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...natural disposition may often give the first rise to it, but that never carries a man far without use and nd worst Times still succeed the former. 12 Then be...prime, You may forever tarry. 16 UPON JULIA'S CLO anything for want of improvement. We see the ways of discourse and reasoning are very different, even... | |
 | Wenzao Wu - China - 1928 - 196 pages
...the most pernicious consequences, destroying the healthy action of the digestive organs, weakening the powers of the mind as well as those of the body, and rendering the individual who indulges in it a worse than useless member of society. I cannot but... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...lessons all day long. The mind may be perplexed and confounded and the head overstrained and weakened. The powers of the mind as well as those of the body grow stronger by a constant and moderate exercise." Watts was in an educational tradition that has... | |
 | Joseph James Chambliss - Education - 1987 - 198 pages
...makes the mind what it is,3S that "while natural disposition may often give the first rise to it ... it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind as well as those of the body to their perfection."36 Locke's "environmentalism," his prospects for education, perhaps are even stronger than... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann - Political Science - 2009 - 312 pages
...and the poor is a practical matter, not one of nature. Nature may "give first rise" to reason, but "it is practice alone that brings the powers of the...as well as those of the body to their perfection" (Conduct 14). The wide range of scholarship necessary to the development of right reason required time... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann - Philosophy - 2008 - 352 pages
...cultural milieu in which one lives. "Natural disposition may often give first rise" to reason, but "it is practice alone that brings the powers of the...as well as those of the body to their perfection" (sec. 4, 174). Hence, Locke says, "Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1800 - 540 pages
...disposition may often give the first rise to it, but that never carries a man far, without use and exercise ; and it is practice alone that brings the...never produces any thing for want of improvement. We sec the ways of discourse and reasoning are very different, even concerning the same matter, at court... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1886 - 320 pages
...natural disposition may often give the first rise to it; but that never carries a man far without use and exercise; and it is practice alone that brings the...as well as those of the body, to their perfection." Conversely he concludes that "defects and weakness in men's understanding as well as other faculties... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1988 - 328 pages
...and the art of telling ap efi . disposition may often give never carries a man far without use and exercise; and it is practice alone that brings the...as well as those of the body, to their perfection." Conversely he concludes that "defects and weakness in men's understanding as well as other faculties... | |
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