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Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke - Page 12
by John Locke - 1802
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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...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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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...way inferior. The legs of a dancing-master, and the fingers of a musician, tall as it were naturally, without thought or pains, into regular and admirable...motions in the members not used to them, and it will reqmre length of time and long practice to attain but some degrees of alike ability. What incredible...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...way inferiorr The legs of a dancing master and the fmgers of a musician, fall as it were naturally, without thought or pains, into regular and admirable...not used to them, and it will require length of time am; long practice to attain but some degrees of a like ability. What incredible and astonishing actions...
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The conduct of the understanding. To which is prefixed, a sketch of the life ...

John Locke - 1812 - 178 pages
...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...What incredible and astonishing actions do we find rope dancers and tumblers bringtheir bodies to ; not but that sundry in almost all manual arts are...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 448 pages
...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...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...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. Analysis ...

John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...inferior. The legs of a dancing-master, and the fingers of a musician, fall as it vrere naturally, without thought, or pains, into regular and admirable...like motions in the members not used to them, and jt will require length of time and long practice to attain but some degrees of a like ability. What...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1819 - 468 pages
...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...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 jsomc degrees of a...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 3

John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 404 pages
...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...like ability. What incredible and astonishing actions da we find rope-dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to ! Not but that sundry, in almost all manual...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 3

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1823 - 398 pages
...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...will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the member's not used to them, and it will require length of time and long practice to attain but some...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...uaturally without thought or pains iuto regular aud admirable motions. Bid them change their parte, ng uot used to them, aud it will require l.-ngth of time and ioiig_ practice to attain but some degrees...
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