| John Locke - 1693 - 290 sider
...Infancies, have very important and lafting Confequences: And there 'tis, as in the Fountains of fbme Rivers, where a gentle application of the hand turns the flexible Waters into Chanels, that make them talie quite contrary Courfes, and by this little (direction given them at firft... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1844 - 978 sider
...more so. John Locke said, " I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts in ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their...is that which makes the great difference in mankind ;" whilst the language of Solomon was, " Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old... | |
| John Locke - 1779 - 336 sider
...infancies, have very important and lafting confequences : And their 'tis, as in the fountains of fome rivers, where a gentle application of the hand turns the flexible waters into channels, that make them take quite contrary couifes ; and by this little direction given them at firft in the fource,... | |
| John Locke - 1812 - 492 sider
...kind are but few ; and I think I may say, that, of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their...hand turns the flexible waters into channels, that make them take quite contrary courses; and by this little direction, given them at first, in the source,... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1812 - 372 sider
...with, nine parts of ten are what they '* are, good or evil, useful or not, by their edu** cation. "Pis that which makes the great •' difference in mankind....little or almost " insensible impressions on our tender infan" cies, have very important and lasting conse" quences : and there it is, as in the foun" tains... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1818 - 158 sider
...to my view." 61 It is remarked by Mr. Locke — " Of all the men we meet with, nine parts in ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education." Let us pause for a moment, and consider what education we bestow upon those whom we place under the... | |
| 1819 - 384 sider
...following words i " It is remarked by Mr. Locke — ' Of all the men we meet with, nine parts in ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.' Let us pause for a moment, and consider what education we bestow on those whom we place under the tuition... | |
| Mrs. Hoare (Louisa Gurney) - 1819 - 206 sider
...EDUCATION Discipline, " I think I may say, that, of all the men we meet with, - nine parts often are what they are, good or evil, useful " or not, by their education." LOCKE " To neglect beginnings it the fundamental error into " which most parents fall." " Parents wonder... | |
| 1854 - 718 sider
...— ' I think I may say ' that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of them are what ' they are by their education. It is that which makes the great ' difference in mankind.' Facts we think, on the contrary, make it pretty obvious, that as man, in general, becomes what he is... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 504 sider
...this kind are but few; and I think I may say, that, of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their...hand turns the flexible waters into channels, that make them take quite contrary courses ; and by this little direction, given them at first, in the source,... | |
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