 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 страници
...every thing, 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...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 give us strength... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 страници
...while on ourselves we stand, The sea is curt, and that defends the land. Dryden. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what we read ears : it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections -, unless we chew them over... | |
 | Rev. Charles BRIDGES - 1830 - 696 страници
...above your shelves.' On the Improvement of the Mind, ch. i. Thus again Mr. Locke — 'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is...the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections. — There are indeed in some writers instances of deep... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 страници
...every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowlege ; 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 food ; unless we chew it over again, it will not give us strength and... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 страници
...every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowlege ; 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 food ; unless we chew it over again, it will not give us strength and... | |
 | John Locke - 1833 - 156 страници
...thing, are thought to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the minil only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking...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 give us strength... | |
 | 1836 - 282 страници
...During the occupation of Moscow by the French, they were appropriated as stables. READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking...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 give us... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 страници
...of every thing are thought to understand every thing too: but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is...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 give us... | |
 | 1837 - 352 страници
...object. "Reading" says Locke "furnishes the mind with mate* rials 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 collections, unless we chew them over again ; and then they will give... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 страници
...their country, boasting not a foot of ground in all its wide domain ? READING only furnishes the mind with materials of knowledge. It is thinking makes what we read ours. MEN have more strength, women more flexibility ; men listen, arrange, compose, and deduce ; women combine,... | |
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This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything 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... 
