 | John Locke - 1712 - 332 páginas
...Ad vantages it is capable or'. JEvery* one's ^natural genius ibould be carry'd. as far as it could;, but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but /Labour ; u vajn-, a#d what is fo plaifter'd on, will-, at; btft fit £)ut .-untowardly, and hav« always*... | |
 | 1772 - 324 páginas
...all the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius mould be earned as far as it could, but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is fo plaiftered on, will at leafl fit butuntowa-dly. and have always hanging to it the... | |
 | John Locke - 1802 - 308 páginas
...the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could ; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plaistered on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 páginas
...advantages of which it is capable. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could j but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain." But that good sense Avhich forms the sole basis of as} r stem of education composed for the age of... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 492 páginas
...advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could ; hut to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plaistered on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 488 páginas
...the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could ; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plaistered on will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 páginas
...an abridgment of liberty. Locke. E»«y one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could, but to attempt the putting another upon him will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plastered on «ill at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungratefulness... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 362 páginas
...and see, by often trials, what turn they easily take, and what their native stock is, how it may be improved, and what it is fit for : he should consider...vain attempt to make him an arithmetician. In the above.quoted passage, Locke recommends that the teacher should, " by often trials/' discover the natural... | |
 | John Locke - 1844 - 272 páginas
...the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could ; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plaistered on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - 1850 - 484 páginas
...of her great master, Locke, — " Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could ; but to attempt the putting another upon him will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plastered on will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness... | |
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For in many cases, all that we can do, or should aim at, is to make the best of what Nature has given; to prevent the Vices and Faults to which such a Constitution is most inclined, and give it all the Advantages it is capable of. Every one's Natural... 
