 Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Σελίδα 348των Samuel Johnson - 1801Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 σελίδες
...awhile neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...luminary which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor which, if once it falls,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 σελίδες
...if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. — Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. — But ly tries to understand and to obey the voice of divine wisdom, he will not go fatal passed away, is again bright in its proper station.— So books are faithful repouitories, which, may... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 σελίδες
...if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. — Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. — But passed away, is again bright in its proper station. — So books are faithful repositories, which,... | |
 | 1912 - 572 σελίδες
...the " Ride to York " ? ELH TEW, Upham Rectory, Hants. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. vi. 230).—" Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled,'' is the exact wording in Johnson's ' Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,' as printed in his... | |
 | Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt - 1916 - 378 σελίδες
...tradition, upon which the whole question rested, appears clearly in his generalizing statement : ' ' Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden.it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 σελίδες
...while neglected or {forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not ' to be recalled!?...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt - 1916 - 360 σελίδες
...of tradition, upon which the whole question rested, appears clearly in his generalizing statement: "Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls,... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 σελίδες
...while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 σελίδες
...while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | David Crystal - 2002 - 212 σελίδες
...while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
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