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" And I would fain have any one name to me that tongue, that any one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well,... "
Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man, Or, A New and ... - Page xxxii
by Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1804
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English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Locke ...

John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume - Philosophers - 1910 - 460 pages
...grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule...thing to trust to, but his memory, and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those, that are allowed to speak properly, which in other words...
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The Educational Writings of John Locke

John Locke - Education - 1912 - 292 pages
...grammar. ' i Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule...thing to trust to but his memory, and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those that are allowed to speak properly, which, in other words,...
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School Education, Volume 18, Issues 7-8

Education - 1899 - 488 pages
...Languages were made not by rules of art but by accident, and the common use of the people. And lie that will speak them well has no other rule but that, nor anything to trust to but his memory, and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those...
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The Direct Method of Teaching French

Eugène Gourio - French language - 1921 - 192 pages
...grammar. Languages were made not by rules, or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well has no other rule but that; nor anything to trust to but his memory, and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those...
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The Educational Writings of John Locke

John Locke - Education - 1922 - 294 pages
...grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule...thing to trust to but his memory, and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those that are allowed to speak properly, which, in other words,...
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The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages ..., Volumes 2-3

1926 - 548 pages
...speak them well and is not master of them. Languages were made not by rules or art but by accident... and he that will speak them well has no other rule but that, nor anything to trust to but his memory and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those...
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Louis Hue Girardin and Nicholas Gouin Dufief and Their Relations ..., Volume 3

Edith Philips - 1926 - 114 pages
...speak them well and is not master of them. Languages were made not by rules or art but by accident... and he that will speak them well has no other rule but that, nor anything to trust to but his memory and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those...
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Language in History: Theories and Texts

Tony Crowley - Language and culture - 1996 - 228 pages
...example: Languages were not made by rules or art but by accident and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule but that; nor anything to trust but his memory, and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those that...
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke - Education - 1886 - 320 pages
...Grammar. Languages were made not by Rules or Art, but by Accident, and the common Use of the People. And he that will speak them well, has no other Rule...thing to trust to, but his Memory, and the Habit of speaking after the Fashion learned from those, 30 that are allowed to speak properly, which in other...
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke - Education - 1988 - 328 pages
...Grammar. Languages were made not by Rules or Art, but by Accident, and the common Use of the People. And he that will speak them well, has no other Rule...thing to trust to, but his Memory, and the Habit of speaking after the Fashion learned from those, 30 that are allowed to speak properly, which in other...
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