He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.


THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE, Esq; (ed. 1759)

John Locke Quotes

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success,...

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success,...

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success,...

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success,...