On the Right Use of Books: A LectureRoberts Brothers, 1878 - Всего страниц: 65 |
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Стр. 18 - There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach; the function of the second is to move: the first is a rudder; the second, an oar or a sail.
Стр. 60 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Стр. 19 - ... own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where every pulse and each separate influx is a step upwards, a step ascending as upon a Jacob's ladder from earth to mysterious altitudes above the earth. All the steps of knowledge, from first to last, carry you further on the same plane, but could never raise you one foot above your ancient level of earth; whereas the very first step in power is a flight, is an ascending movement into another element where earth is forgotten.
Стр. 18 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookery-book? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookery-book on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is...
Стр. 63 - ... it. And we cannot tell from what quarter the next material will come. The thought we need, the facts we are in search of, may make their appearance in the corner of the newspaper, or in some forgotten volume long ago consigned to dust and oblivion. Hawthorne, in the parlor of a country inn, on a rainy day, could find mental nutriment in an old directory. That accomplished philologist, the late Lord Strangford, could find ample amusement for an hour's delay at a railway station in tracing out...
Стр. 21 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind into the nature of things.
Стр. 63 - The great secret of reading consists in this, that it does not matter so much what we read or how we read it, as what we think and how we think it. Reading is only the fuel ; and, the mind once on fire, any and all material will feed the flame, provided only it have any combustible matter in it. And we cannot tell from what quarter the next material will come. The thought we need, the facts we are in search of, may make their appearance in the corner of the newspaper, or in some forgotten volume...
Стр. 35 - But the poet's remedies for the dangers of a little learning are both of them impossible. None can ' drink deep' enough to be, in truth, anything more than very superficial ; and every human being, that is not a downright idiot, must taste.
Стр. 35 - Such an acquaintance with chemistry and anatomy, eg, as would be creditable, and not useless, to a lawyer, would be contemptible for a physician ; and such an acquaintance with law as would be desirable for him, would be a most discreditable smattering for a lawyer. It is to be observed that the word smattering is applied to two different kinds of...