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... memory . Let us repeat it ; and - just as we swallow our food masti- cated and nearly fluid , in order that it may be more easily digested - so our reading should not be delivered to the memory in its crude state , but sweetened and ...
... memory . Let us repeat it ; and - just as we swallow our food masti- cated and nearly fluid , in order that it may be more easily digested - so our reading should not be delivered to the memory in its crude state , but sweetened and ...
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... memory , and there congene- rates the eternal Truth of the mind . Lastly , let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in Books , how easily , how secretly , how safely they expose the nakedness of human igno- rance without ...
... memory , and there congene- rates the eternal Truth of the mind . Lastly , let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in Books , how easily , how secretly , how safely they expose the nakedness of human igno- rance without ...
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... Memory , and commit the most material of them to Writing , the faithful Keeper of Words . And be sure to take Care not to rely upon them , as that ridiculous rich Man that Seneca speaks of did , who had form'd a Notion , that whatsoever ...
... Memory , and commit the most material of them to Writing , the faithful Keeper of Words . And be sure to take Care not to rely upon them , as that ridiculous rich Man that Seneca speaks of did , who had form'd a Notion , that whatsoever ...
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... Memory . An Engagement and combating of Wits does in an extraor- dinary Manner both shew the Strength of Genius's , rouzes them , and augments them . If you are in Doubt of any Thing , don't be asham'd to ask ; or if you have committed ...
... Memory . An Engagement and combating of Wits does in an extraor- dinary Manner both shew the Strength of Genius's , rouzes them , and augments them . If you are in Doubt of any Thing , don't be asham'd to ask ; or if you have committed ...
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... memory , and because also it was the last talk that ever I had , and the last time that ever I saw that noble and worthy lady . And I do not mean by all this my talk , that young gentlemen should always be poring on a book , and by ...
... memory , and because also it was the last talk that ever I had , and the last time that ever I saw that noble and worthy lady . And I do not mean by all this my talk , that young gentlemen should always be poring on a book , and by ...
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Page 121 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 122 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 165 - I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
Page 193 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 28 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 153 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Bound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 282 - ... men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 310 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Page 116 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 64 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.