 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...practice in men, whose bodies have nothing different from those of the amazed spectators. So it is with 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 more narrowly,... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...practice in men, whose bodies have nothing different from those of the amazed spectators. So it is with 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 more narrowly,... | |
 | John Locke - 1833 - 156 pages
...and industry in men, whose 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...found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the producl of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1836 - 610 pages
...exercise of those powers which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us toward perfection. 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 into more narrowly,... | |
 | John Locke - 1837 - 160 pages
...and industry in men, whose 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...into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, ana to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleasantness in... | |
 | Francis Athow West, Jane Gibson - 1837 - 370 pages
...and her superiority as a woman is the natural result of her own diligence, discipline, and efforts. "As it is in the body, so it is in the mind, practice...and most even of those excellencies which are looked upon as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 522 pages
...by the thoughts ; while " the man who has no rule over his own spirit, is like a city broken down * "As it is in the body so it is in the mind, practice makes it what it is; and most of those excellences which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found when examined into more... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - 544 pages
...exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind, — practice makes it what it is ; and the most, even of those excellences which are looked upon as natural endowments, will be found, when... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...following words of Locke apply to them, namely, " Most men of those excellencies which are looked upon as natural endowments, will be found, when examined...more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and raised to that pitch only by repeated actions." And to illustrate this, we may take example of the... | |
 | Madame Bureaud-Riofrey - 1843 - 252 pages
...motions are but the effect of use and industry, in men whose bodies have nothing peculiar in them. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind, practice makes it what it is. Who can doubt but that children perceive, judge, and reason, though their observation relates to trifles;... | |
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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 into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised... 
