 | John Locke - 1712 - 332 pages
...-giv^ it; all the. 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*... | |
 | John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...inclined, and give it all 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... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 pages
...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 pages
...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 ungracefulness... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 496 pages
...inclined, and give it all 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 pages
...nobody, T think, accounts 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 - 368 pages
...all the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as possible, but to attempt the putting another upon him will be but labour in vain." For instance, if a person has the organ of language largely developed, but that of number small, he... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 362 pages
...all the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as possible, but to attempt the putting another upon him will be but labour in vain." For instance, if a person has the organ of language largely developed, but that of number small, he... | |
 | John Locke - 1844 - 272 pages
...inclined, and give it all 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... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - 1850 - 484 pages
...have urged the language 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 of... | |
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... it. 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... 
