 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 Seiten
...—Eliza Cook. 235. Beading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating...them over again they will not give us strength and nourishment.—Locke. 236. The deeds we do, the words we say, Into the still air they seem to fleet;... | |
 | John Locke - 1891 - 104 Seiten
...always so. Heading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what wo read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is...nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instance of deep thoughts, close and ncntc reasoning, and ideas well pursued.* The light these would... | |
 | 1892 - 622 Seiten
...thinking alone which makes what we read ours. The philosophic Locke puts this truth forcibly thus, — " We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough...unless we chew them over again, they will not give us st^ngth and nourishment." Above all, you may find that your mental training is defective, not from... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...•Uwajs so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials af Knowledge, it is think jug makes what_ we read ours] • We are of the ruminating kind, and...chew them over again they will not give us strength and\f nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thoughts, close and acute... | |
 | Joseph Landon - 1894 - 494 Seiten
...attempt to recall what you have read, and do not leave it till you are able to do this. I.ocke says, " It is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load...again they will not give us strength and nourishment." The same method of study will not answer for all subjects ; each subject has its own peculiarities... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating...to cram ourselves with a great load of collections, — we must chew them over again. — Chaining. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1894 - 918 Seiten
...knowledge is the product of the thinker's own mind. Locke wisely says: "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes...ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not Ч Austin's Jurisprudence, 118. '"There is no rule but what may enough that we cram ourselves with... | |
 | James Phinney Munroe - 1895 - 280 Seiten
...lengthy Essay is too much. A sentence from it here and there will serve to show Locke's vigorous style. "We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." * " It is undoubtedly a wrong use of my understanding to make it the rule and measure of another man's."... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 Seiten
...thinking that 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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. JOHN LOCKE. INFLUENCE. "TTIRTUE will catch as well as vice by » contact, and the public stock of honest,... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 Seiten
...digesting anything, it produces nothing but a heap of crudities. . . . Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge: it is thinking makes...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. The scientific activity of the seventeenth century makes that age memorable in the history of science.... | |
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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... 
