 | English literature - 1874 - 274 Seiten
...are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes...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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 Seiten
...is 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...again they will not give us strength and nourishment. — John Locke. 167. This is to be exactly observed, that not only exceeding great progression may... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1876 - 556 Seiten
...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...again they will not give us strength and nourishment." Turning now to the other extreme, a training in the technical use of knowledge in some trade or craft... | |
 | 1876 - 450 Seiten
...is 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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. The thoughts of our deliberation are most accurate ; these wo vent into our papers. What... | |
 | John Webster Hancock - 1876 - 282 Seiten
...blessedness that " Godliness with contentment is great gain." IX. THE LIMITS AND MYSTERIES OF KNOWLEDGE. " We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." — LOCKE. HATEVER may be the pride of human wisdom, or the activity of man's desire, there is a limit... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1876 - 314 Seiten
...materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating species,' and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. All that is found in books is not built upon true foundations, nor always rightly deduced from the... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1877 - 364 Seiten
...is 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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. The thoughts of our deliberation are most accurate ; . îiese we vent into our papers. What... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1877 - 388 Seiten
...is 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, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a.groat load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - 1878 - 224 Seiten
...are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Heading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.' Precis- writing, though not identical with 'chewing over again,' not only requires that that process... | |
 | 1879 - 910 Seiten
...He gave thee 1 who gave thee to live." Liverpool. SAMUEL PEARSOX. HEADING furnishes the inind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes...ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we digest them they will not give us strength or nourishment. —Lode. at Sijjt. " IN the beginning, God... | |
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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... 
