 | 1843 - 540 pages
...furnishes tlie mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. H'c are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." A mistake here is so common and so pernicious, that I add one more authority. Says Dugald Stewart,... | |
 | Education - 1843 - 798 pages
...always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that make» what we read ours. We are of the ruminating k.ind, and it is not enough to cram ourthe fairest prospects. No, take your course wisely, but firmly; and, having taken it, hold upon... | |
 | Medicine - 1844 - 578 pages
...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 kind,...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. The memory may be stored, but the judgment is little better, and the stock of knowledge cot increased,... | |
 | Charles Bridges - Pastoral theology - 1844 - 576 pages
...again Mr. Locke— ' Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind,...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... | |
 | 1845 - 260 pages
...house." THINKING. — Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind,...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. HUMANITY. — Good nature and humanity have even a larger extent than mere justice ; for the obligations... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...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 kind,...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." A mistake here is so common and so pernicious, that I add one more authority. Says Dugald Stewart,... | |
 | Education - 1849 - 206 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pages
...fotvs therefrom. READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge j it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating 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,... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...I— Seneca. READING furnishes the mind only with the material« of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind,...collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not giïe us strength and nourishment — Loch. How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good, whilst... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...Reading," says Locke, " furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. 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... | |
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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... 
