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" 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... "
A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors - Page 253
by Manual - 1809
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 7

David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1908 - 454 pages
...N''V'l ' i* imc!;' auy:'.ri • of rules, or laying them up in his memory; prictice r:i:-.t stt•J^ the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule;...music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so, that defects...
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How to Argue and Win

Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1910 - 330 pages
...or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practise must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting...music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so, that defects...
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The Educational Writings of John Locke

John Locke - Education - 1912 - 292 pages
...him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules or laying them up in his memory ; practice must...arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker or a strict reasoner by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists.3 1 But cf. Thoughts,...
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education: With Introduction and Notes by R.H. Quick

John Locke - Education - 1913 - 314 pages
...steer a vessel by getting a pilot to give him lessons on shore. "Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules or laying them up in his memory ; practice must...extempore by a lecture and instruction in the arts of ~nusic and painting as a coherent thinker or a strict reasoner by a set of 1les shewing him wherein...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of ide, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, a strict reasoner by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so that...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of a strict reasoner by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so that...
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The Educational Writings of John Locke

John Locke - Education - 1922 - 294 pages
...him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules or laying them up in his memory ; practice must...arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker or a strict' reasoner by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists.3 1 But cf. Thoughts,...
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Century Readings in the English Essay

Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 564 pages
...him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice...music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right rea5 soiling consists. This being so, that defects...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of a strict rcasoner by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so that...
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The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General ...

John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...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...arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so,...
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