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" Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection. "
An Elementary Treatise on Logic: Comprising the Essential Principles and ... - Page 189
by Hezekiah G. Ufford - 1823 - 192 pages
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1802 - 610 pages
...MIND. 455 upon all the different fubjefts which may pafs unde our review. Nothing, in truth, has fuch a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention,...the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extenfive and various reading, without reflexion. The activity and force of the mind are gradually...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 564 pages
...weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extenfive and various reading, without reflection. The activity and force of the mind are gradually impaired, in confequence of difufe; and not unfrequently all our principles and opinions come to be loft, in the...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...subjects which may pass under our review. Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not «nly the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers...gradually impaired, in consequence of disuse ; and not (mfrequently all our principles and opinions come to be lost in the infinite multiplicity and discordancy...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 382 pages
...displaying themselves upon all the different subjects which may pass under our review Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...in consequence of disuse ; and not unfrequently all our principles and opinions come to be lost in the infinite multiplicity and discordancy of our acquired...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...displaying themselves upon all the different subjects which iray pass under our review. Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the uit?ˇ!ectuH powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection. The...
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The Remains of Nathaniel Appleton Haven: With a Memoir of His Life by George ...

Nathaniel Appleton Haven - American literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...idleness is not better, for every intellectual purpose, than indolent reading. " Nothing," says Stewart, " has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." The divided attention we often give to discourses at church, is a habit very injurious to the memory. We...
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The Remains of Nathaniel Appleton Haven: With a Memoir of His Life by George ...

Nathaniel Appleton Haven - American literature - 1827 - 406 pages
...idleness is not better, for every intellectual purpose, than indolent reading. " Nothing," says Stewart, " has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." The divided attention we often give to discourses at church, is a habit very injurious to the memory. We...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed as a Textbook

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1827 - 512 pages
...in a hurried and careless manner. This is injurious to the memory. " Nothing (says Dugald Stewart) has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." Always make it a rule fully to understand what is gone over. Those, who are determined to grapple with...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...on in a hurried and careless manner. This is injurious to the memory. " Nothing, (saysDugald Stuart) has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." Always make it a rule fully to understand what is gone over. Those, who are determined to grapple with...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements) - 1828 - 584 pages
...careless manner. This is injurious to the memory. " Nothing (says Dugald Stewart) has such a tendency t° weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the...extensive and various reading without reflection." Always make it a rule fall} to understand what is gone over. Those, who are determined to grapple with...
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