The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes, المجلد 8

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C. and J. Rivington, 1824

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الصفحة 274 - before him ; give me leave therefore, great sir, to lay my case before your majesty, and to plead not only my innocence but my merits towards your majesty ; for " my integrity " will I hold fast, and will not let it go ; my heart shall " not reproach me so long as I live.
الصفحة 58 - through, and dissolved the restraint of discipline; and vice was grown to such a head, that it durst show itself barefaced, without being out of countenance. It is virtue then, direct virtue, which is the hard and valuable part to be aimed at in education ; and not a forward
الصفحة 48 - carried as far as it could ; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plaistered on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation. Affectation is not, I confess, an early fault
الصفحة 128 - place virtue as the first and most necessary^ of those endowments that belong to a man or a gentleman, as absolutely requisite to make him valued and beloved by others, acceptable or tolerable to himself. Without that, I think, he will be happy neither in this, ^ nor the other
الصفحة 144 - soon as he can speak English, it is time for him to learn some other language : this nobody doubts of, when French is proposed. And the reason is, because people are accustomed to the right way of teaching that language, which is by talking it into children in constant conversation, and not by grammatical
الصفحة 137 - its whole business. How else is it possible, that a child should be chained to the oar seven, eight, or ten of the best years of his life, to get a language or two, which I think might be had at a great deal cheaper rate of pains and time, and be learned almost in
الصفحة 297 - persuaded of both, as of any truths I most firmly assent to. And, therefore, I have long since given off the consideration of that question, resolving all into this short conclusion, that if it be possible for God to make a free agent, then man is free, though I see not the way of it.
الصفحة 69 - mention reasoning with children : and yet I cannot but think that the true way of dealing with them. They understand it as early as they do language ; and, if I mis-observe not, they love to be treated as rational creatures, sooner than is imagined. It is a pride should be cherished in them, and, as much as can
الصفحة 33 - their children, should begin it whilst they are very little ; and look that they perfectly comply with the will of their parents. Would you have your son obedient to you when past a child ? Be sure then to establish the authority of a father, as soon as he is capable of submission, and can understand in whose power
الصفحة 34 - is a child, and your affectionate friend when he is a man. For methinks they mightily misplace the treatment due to their children, who are indulgent and familiar when they are little, but severe to them, and keep them at a ^distance, when they are grown up.

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