A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding, العدد 1Timothy Bedlington, 1828 - 132 من الصفحات |
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... time and long practice to attain but some degrees of a like ability . What incredi ble and astonishing actions do we find rope- dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to ! Not but that sundry , in almost all manual arts 16 OF THE CONDUCT.
... time and long practice to attain but some degrees of a like ability . What incredi ble and astonishing actions do we find rope- dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to ! Not but that sundry , in almost all manual arts 16 OF THE CONDUCT.
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... 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 excellencies , which are looked on as natural endowments ...
... 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 excellencies , which are looked on as natural endowments ...
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... bodies are . Would you have a man write or paint , dance or fence well , or perform any other manual operation dexterously and with ease ; let him have ever so much vigour and activity , suppleness and address naturally , yet nobody ...
... bodies are . Would you have a man write or paint , dance or fence well , or perform any other manual operation dexterously and with ease ; let him have ever so much vigour and activity , suppleness and address naturally , yet nobody ...
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... bodies , and we must expect nothing from our understandings , any farther than they are perfected by habits . The Americans are not all born with worse understandings than the Europeans , though we see none of them have such reaches in ...
... bodies , and we must expect nothing from our understandings , any farther than they are perfected by habits . The Americans are not all born with worse understandings than the Europeans , though we see none of them have such reaches in ...
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... bodies one upon another , whether in the visible course of things left to themselves , or in experiments made by men , applying agents and patients to one another , after a peculiar and artificial manner . 2. Of voluntary agents , more ...
... bodies one upon another , whether in the visible course of things left to themselves , or in experiments made by men , applying agents and patients to one another , after a peculiar and artificial manner . 2. Of voluntary agents , more ...
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