 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...  The Conduct of the Understanding - Page 20by John Locke - 1802 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jean Roemer - English language - 1857 - 332 pages
...taught at anytime, it must be to one that can speak the language already" "Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules or laying them up in his memory;...the hahit of doing without reflecting on the rule.". .. ."The knowledge a gentleman would 'ordinarily draw for his use out of the Roman and Greek writers,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William ROSS (B.A.) - Classroom management - 1858 - 246 pages
...than in the following passage from Locke's Essay : — " Nobody," says he, " has made anything by the 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 expect to make a good painter... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - Aesthetics - 1858 - 482 pages
...latter were subservient to technicalities and rules. " Nobody," says Locke, "is made any thing by having of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rules ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter or... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1860 - 136 pages
...not that that he should have proved to your lordships.—Spectator. 37. Nobody is made anything 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... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Flint (inspector of schools.) - 1862 - 152 pages
...more ado, resolves the doubt, and shows the mind where the truth lies.'' " 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." — Lodx on the Conduct 0f the Understanding. BODLEIAN... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1868 - 340 pages
...taught at any time, it must be to one that can speak the language already" "Nobody Is made my thing by hearing of rules or laying them up In his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule.1*. .. ."The knowledge a gentleman would ordinarily draw... | |
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