 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...  The Popular Educator - Σελίδα 4051855Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1858 - 424 σελίδες
...not always so. Heading 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. 34t Grammar of Sature. GRAMMAR OF NATURE. Nature is an unbound volume.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 σελίδες
...re-act upon them, make them its own, and turn them to account. " It is not enough," said John Locke, "to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." That which is put into us by others is always... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1860 - 64 σελίδες
...part of that which is spent in reading." " Reading," says Locke,* " furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." And here T wish to make an important distinction.... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 σελίδες
...increase on repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. It is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again,... | |
 | sir Matthew Digby Wyatt - 1861 - 202 σελίδες
...FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE, born 1551. FOR LIBRARIES, STUDIES, AND BOOK-ROOMS. " Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is...great load of collections : unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength or nourishment." — LOCKE. " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple... | |
 | 1861 - 876 σελίδες
...furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes v. liai we read ours. \Ve are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.— John Locke. ORIGINAL POETRY. , TO-MORROW.... | |
 | 1861 - 404 σελίδες
...Train her to take what you give her, to keep it, and to bring it forth at your bidding. Bacon says,—" We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves • with a load of collections. Unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment."... | |
 | 1861 - 712 σελίδες
...Train her to take what you give her, to keep it, and to bring it forth at your bidding. Bacon says, — "We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not •enough to cram ourselves with a load of collections. Unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment."... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1861 - 340 σελίδες
..." Heading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge," says Locke : " it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is in vain to cram ourselves; unless we chew over again, we shall derive no strength or nourishment :... | |
 | 1863 - 910 σελίδες
...always so. Re<idiu<,' f :mushes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is thinking makes ^•hat we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough V> cram ourselves with a cire<it laad of collections : unless we chew them «*• «gain, they will... | |
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