 | Education - 1843 - 798 pages
..."Learning," says Feltham, "falls far that I add one more authority. Says Dugald Stewart, "Xothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...reading WITHOUT REFLECTION. The activity and force of mind are gradually impaired, in consequence of disuse: and not unfrcquently all our principles anJ... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...so common and so pernicious, that I add one more authority. Says Dugald Stewart, " Nothing, m truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...reading WITHOUT REFLECTION. The activity and force of mind are gradually impaired, in consequence of disuse ; and not unfreqnemly all our principles and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy of mind - 1843 - 632 pages
...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...invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a 1 habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection. The r;<t - rc:<j activity and force of... | |
 | 1843 - 540 pages
...more authority. Says Dugald Stewart, "Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only tin' powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in...as a habit of extensive and various reading WITHOUT REELECTION. The activity and force of mind are gradually impaired, in consequence of disuse; and not... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Child rearing - 1845 - 314 pages
...it beyond its capacity of digestion. " Nothing," says Dugald Stewart, "has such a tendency to weake^ not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as extensive reading, without reflection. Mere reading books, oppresses, enfeebles, and is, with many,... | |
 | James Booth - Business and education - 1846 - 172 pages
...is spent in reading."* And to the same effect, by another profound observer, that "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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 668 pages
...the title-page of any book a month after it has been laid by ! Dugald Stewart says : — " Nothing has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as extensive reading without reflection. Mere reading books oppresses, enfeebles, and is with many a substitute... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...common and so pernicious, that I add one more authority. Says Dugald Stewart, " Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...reading WITHOUT REFLECTION. The activity and force of mind are gradually impaired, in consequence of disuse ; and not unfrequently all our principles and... | |
 | Education - 1847 - 508 pages
...the pernicious tendency of unqualified reading. " Nothing, in truth," says that learned individual, "has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers...reading, without reflection. The activity and force of mind are gradually impaired, in consequence of diause; and not un frequently all our principles and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1849 - 580 pages
...knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.' . . . Says Dugald Stewart, ' nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection.' . . . Accustom yourself to refer whatever you read to the general head to which it belongs, and trace... | |
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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. 
