 This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes...  The Popular Educator - Стр. 4051855Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Locke - 1844 - Страниц: 272
...every thing, are taught to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instances... | |
 | Charles Bridges - 1844 - Страниц: 576
...above your shelves.' On the Improvement of the Mind, ch. i. Thus again Mr. Locke— ' Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is...to cram ourselves with a great load of collections. — There are indeed in some writers instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 854
...some pregnant remarks pertinent to the futility of thoughtless perusal. Reading [he says] furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. . . . The mind is backward in itself to be at the pains to trace every argument to its original, and... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 260
...In more general terms, the wisli denoted, "Peace be to the house." THINKING. — Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. HUMANITY. — Good nature and humanity have... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 346
...is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." A mistake here is so common and so pernicious,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Страниц: 408
...mitigate the sorroiu that fotvs therefrom. READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge j it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of...kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a load of collections j unless we chew them over again, they will not give us any strength. ETIQUETTE,... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 206
...the mind with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we i4 aJ our1«. We arc of a ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves...a great load of collections ; unless we chew them aver again, lliL'y will not give us strength and nourishment." As much ealing and Hub exorcise, is... | |
 | 1850 - Страниц: 632
...advanced аЪоте what is human I— Seneca. READING furnishes the mind only with the material« of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours....great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not giïe us strength and nourishment — Loch. How often do we sigh for opportunities... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - Страниц: 496
...we should acquire eloquence by learning the words in a lexicon. " Reading," says Locke, " furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is...We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough that we • cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 436
...of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking...makes what We read ours. We are of the ruminating iin.l, and It is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collecting; unless we chew them... | |
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