 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 280 pages
...difficulties ; and in their houfes were preferred what accounts remained of paft ages. But the Chiefs were fometimes ignorant and carelefs, and fometimes...when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruQion : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recall'. d. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...feries of unwritten hiftory. Books are faithful repofirorit s, which may b£ a while neglected G £ 3 w or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruftion: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a rixcd luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1791 - 458 pages
...the whole feries of unwritten hiftory. Books are faithful repofitories, which may be a while negle&ed or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftrudion : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, \vhich 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 fixe.1 luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...particular inftances have been given, with fuch evidence as neither Bacon nor Eayle has been able to or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will...inftruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to he recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has paft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...to be learned from them. life of Dr. Baerhajve, p. 229« , .[ 132 ] 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. Writteii^learning re a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while ne. glected 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,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...generation of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. 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 he recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...generation of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. 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,... | |
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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... 
