 | Charles Bridges - Pastoral theology - 1844 - 576 pages
...ourselves with a great load of collections. — There are indeed in some writers instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued....if their reader would observe and imitate them— but that can be done only by our own meditation.' Conduct of the Understanding. § 43. Lord Bacon's... | |
 | Medicine - 1844 - 578 pages
...materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read, ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...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,... | |
 | 1845 - 260 pages
...materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...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
...of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...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,... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...well pursued. The light these would give would be of gres* use, if their reader would observe and imitate them ; all the rest at best are but particulars... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...material« of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a 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 of doing good, whilst... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...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 ;...writers, visible instances of deep thoughts, close, acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give would be of great use, if their... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough that wo cram ourselves with a great load of collections. Unless...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. READING, CONVERSATION, AND CONTEMPLATION. — By reading, we enjoy the dead ; by conversation,... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would g-ve would be of great use, if their reader would observe and imitate them ; all the rest at best are... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...; but these only serve by contrast to render the condition of their associates the more remarkable. ideas well pursued.* The light these would give would...; all the rest at best are but particulars fit to be turned into knowledge, but that can be done only by our own meditation and examining the reach,... | |
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Reading 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 to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again they will not... 
