 | Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1883 - 320 pages
...knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what are read over. 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. La Bruyfere. 1639 — 1696. Where a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous... | |
 | Halkett (i.e. Richard Halkatt Lord (ed.)) - American literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...materials of knowledge: thinking that makes what me read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...they will not give us strength and nourishment.— Locke. The thoughts of our deliberation are most accurate; these we vent into our papers. What a hajvpiuess... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 336 pages
...thinking that makes what are read over. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to eram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless...them over again, they will not give us strength and no ur ishment . LA BRUTERE. 1689—1696. Where a book raises your spine, and inspires you with noble... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Sunday school teachers - 1884 - 414 pages
...better than what is told to him." - John Locke, in his famous Essay on Education, declares, "It is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." And President Porter says, of the simple matter of reading—which might be supposed to give, in itself,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Best books - 1884 - 234 pages
...of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what are read over. 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." " Much reading," says Dr. Robert South, " is like much eating, — wholly useless without digestion."... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1884 - 526 pages
...knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what are read over. 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 End and Use of a little Insight in those Parts of Knowledge, which are not a Man's proper Business,... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what are read over. 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 End and Use of a little Insight in those Parts of Knowledge, which are not a Man's proper Business,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...materials of knowledge: it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge 75 In th'arctic...aim; their fatal hands No second stroke intend; an thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give, would be of... | |
 | Robert Freke Gould - 1885 - 304 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 not increased,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...of the ruminating 3 kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ;4 unless we chew them over again, they will not give...indeed in some writers visible ' instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give would be of... | |
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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... 
