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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding ... - Page 17
by John Locke - 1837 - 132 pages
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Posthumous Works

John Locke - 1706 - 352 pages
...repeated Adions* C Some are remarkcd f°r Pleafantnefs in Railery^ others for apologues and appofitc diverting Stories. This is apt to be taken for the effect of pure Nature, and that the rather, becaufe it is not got by Rules, and thofe who excel in either of them, never purpofely fet themfelves...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - 1796 - 554 pages
...endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercife, and to be raifed to that pitch, only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleafantnefs in raillery ; others for apologues and appofitc diverting ftorics. This is apt to be taken...
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The conduct of the understanding

John Locke - 1801 - 168 pages
...narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. v Some men are remarked for pleasantness in raillery; others for apologues and apposite diverting storie*. This is apt to be taken for the effect of pure nature, and that the rather, because it is...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of ...

John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercife, and to be raifed to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for ple»fantnefs in raillery ; others for apologues and appofitc diverting dories. This is apt to be taken...
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An essay concerning human understanding; with Thoughts on the ..., Volume 3

John Locke - 1801 - 334 pages
...endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercife, and to be raifed to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleafanmefs in raillery ; others for apologues and appofite diverting ftories. This is apt to be taken...
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Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke

John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions....apposite diverting stories. -This is apt to be taken lor the effect of pure nature, and that the rather, because it is not got by rules ; and those who...
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The Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1802 - 184 pages
...examined into more narrowly, to he the product of exercise, and to he raised to that l>itch only hy repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleasantness...apologues and apposite diverting stories. This is apt to he taken for the effect of pure nature, and that the rather, hecause it is not got hy rules ; and those...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be, tbe product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleasantness :iu raillery ; others for apologues and apposite diverting stories. This is apt to be taken for the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are r«marked for pleasantness in raillery ; others for apologues...never purposely set themselves to the study of it us an art to' be learnt. But yet it is true, that at first some lucky hit which took with somebody,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product «f exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are re-' kiarked for pleasantness in raillery ; others for apologues and apposite divertmg stories. This...
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