 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...and but continues the other to endure a life of shame. Of all the men we meet with, nine out of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by...little or almost insensible, impressions on our tender infancy have very important and lasting consequences. Virtue is the hard and valuable part to be aimed... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 422 pages
...with nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. It is this which makes the great difference in mankind. The little...very important and lasting consequences ; and there 't is as in the fountains of some rivers, where a gentle application of the hand turns the flexible... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 424 pages
...truth alone. " I think I may say," he begins, " that of all the men we meet with nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. It is this which makes the great difference in mankind. The little or almost insensible impressions on our... | |
 | Henry Drummond - Christian ethics - 1839 - 236 pages
...12mo. boards, price 3s. 6rf. " I think I may say that of all men we meet with, nine Parts out of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education." — Locke. A PRACTICAL VIEW OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN ITS EARLY DAYS : to which is added, a Letter... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pages
...12mo. boards, price 3s. 6d. " I think I may say, that of all men we meet with, nine parts out of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education . " — Locke. A PRACTICAL VIEW of CHRISTIAN EDUCATION in its EARLY DAYS : to which is added, a Letter... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - Bible and science - 1840 - 250 pages
...we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by education. 'Tis that which makes the great difference in mankind....very important and lasting consequences: and there 'tis as in the fountains of some rivers, where a gentle application of the hand turns the flexible... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...sail, And Ihou from camps remote the danger shun, Which now, alas! too nearly threats my son. (Pope.) The little, or almost insensible impressions on our...application of the hand turns the flexible waters into channels, that make them take quite contrary courses: and by this little direction given them... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - Education - 1842 - 588 pages
...another passage he says, " I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts out of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. It is this which makes the great difference in mankind, and in their manners and abilities." which all original... | |
 | Louis-Aimé Martin - Married women - 1842 - 598 pages
...-ra: .iti TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. " I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts out often are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education." — Locke. THE long period which elapses between the birth of man and that of his arriving at maturity,... | |
 | Louis Aimé Martin - Women - 1842 - 524 pages
...327 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. " I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine pavts out of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education." — Locke. THE long period which elapses between the birth of man and that of his arriving at maturity,... | |
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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 education. 
