...find that he entertained nearly the same view of the subject- " Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must...music and painting, as a coherent thinker or strict reasoner by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists." Nor does Dr. Watts, in his...

...RE W ARDS—EMULATION —VIRTUE, OR THE HABtT OF DOING GOOD. " Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules or laying them up in his memory, practice must...the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule." LOCKE. " Give not a sword to a child," says Plutarch, " nor authority to the ignorant." Authority confers...

...him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice...music and painting, as a coherent thinker or strict reasoner by a set of rules, (bowing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so that defects...

...lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing rules, or laying them up in his memory;...to make a good painter or musician, extempore, by merely lecturing upon the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by...

...in his Essay on the Conduct of the Human Understanding. "Nobody has made anything by the hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice...without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well expect to make a good painter or musician extempore, by a lecture or instruction in the arts of music...

...observes, " has made anything by the hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory. Practice mult settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well expect to make a good painter or musician, extempore, by a lecture, or instruction in the arts of music...

...catechetical method. " Nobody," observes Locke, with much point, " has made anything by the hearing of rules or laying them up in his memory. Practice must...without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well expect to make a good painter or musician extempore by a lecture or instruction in the arts of music...

...make speeches, or write despatches in the Latin language. . . . Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules or laying them up in his memory ; practice must...the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule."! Among the great number of later writers who have equally condemned the use of grammar in beginning...

...precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules or laying them up in bis memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without...arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker or a strict reasoner by a set of rules showing him wherein right reasoning consists. This being so that...

...lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory. Nobody is made any thing by hearing rules, or laying them up in his memory...to make a good painter or musician, extempore, by merely lecturing upon the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by...