15. More instances.
Many children, imputing the pain they endured at school to their books they were corrected
for, so join those ideas together, that a book becomes their aversion, and they are never reconciled to the study
and use of them all their lives after; and thus reading becomes a torment to them, which otherwise possibly they
might have made the great pleasure of their lives. There are rooms convenient enough, that some men cannot
study in, and fashions of vessels, which, though ever so clean and commodious, they cannot drink out of, and that
by reason of some accidental ideas which are annexed to them, and make them offensive; and who is there that
hath not observed some man to flag at the appearance, or in the company of some certain person not otherwise
superior to him, but because, having once on some occasion got the ascendant, the idea of authority and distance
goes along with that of the person, and he that has been thus subjected, is not able to separate them.
