 As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is ; and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 320by John Locke - 1796 - 459 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Bridges - Pastoral theology - 1844 - 576 pages
...Locke — ' BO it is in the mind - practice makes it what it is ; and most even of those excellences, which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more minutely, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch by repeated actions' — Again... | |
 | John Locke - 1844 - 272 pages
...bodies have nothing peculiar in them from those of the amazed lookers on. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind , practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...bodies have nothing peculiar in them from those of the amazed lookers-on. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is ; and most, even of those excellences winch are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...Locke is applicable : — " Practice makes the mind what it is ; and most even of those excellences which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more minutely, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch by repeated actions." We reserve... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...Bulwer Lytton. THE GENERAL READER. ACQUIRED TALENT OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR NATURAL. As it ig in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found when examined... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...occurrents fit for further inquiry. Sir H. Wotton. IV. Of practice ant) ?^aMt. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is ; and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined... | |
 | Claude Marcel - Foreign Language Study - 1853 - 458 pages
...they have been inculcated by suitable example and exercise. " Most of those excellences," says Locke, "which are looked on as natural endowments, will be...examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions." 1. Self-Love. Self-love is the... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...bodies have nothing peculiar in them from those of the amazed lookers on. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...bodies have noth ing peculiar in them from those of :the amazed .lookers-on. , As it is in the body, so it is. in. the mind ; practice makes it what it is; and most, even of those excellences which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...the most numerous and most trying temptations and disorders.—Bacon. 253. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is; and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined... | |
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