 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
..."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...load of collections, unless we chew them over again ; and then they will give us strength, and nourishment." To supply to the reader this mental food ;... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. AVe 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... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...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...one more authority. Says Dugald Stewart, " Nothing, m truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers... | |
 | Medicine - 1844 - 578 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. The memory may be stored, but the judgment is little better, and the stock of knowledge cot increased,... | |
 | John Locke - 1844 - 272 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and... | |
 | Charles Bridges - Pastoral theology - 1844 - 576 pages
...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. — There are indeed in some writers instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas... | |
 | 1845 - 260 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. HUMANITY. — Good nature and humanity have even a larger extent than mere justice ; for the obligations... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...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...in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and, various... | |
 | Education - 1849 - 206 pages
...the mind with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we i4 aJ our1«. We arc of a ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves...a great load of collections ; unless we chew them aver again, lliL'y will not give us strength and nourishment." As much ealing and Hub exorcise, is... | |
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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... 
