 | Education - 1854 - 862 pages
...the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is making what we read ours. We are of the rnminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chow them once again they will not give ns strength and nourishment To which let me add, that this... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 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...they will not give us strength and nourishment.— John Locke. 156. This is to be exactly observed, that not only exceeding great progression may be made... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 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...they will not give us strength and nourishment.— John Locke. 156. This is to be exactly observed, that not only exceeding great progression may be made... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...BIADING famishes 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...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over and over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are, indeed, in some writers,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 pages
...materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes them ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and itis notenough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are, indeed, in some writers, visible j instances of deep thought, clos acute reasoning, and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours} . . . SaysDugald Stewart, ' nothing, 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 - 1858 - 424 pages
...furnishes the mind only with the materials 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 — we must chew them over again. 34t Grammar of Sature. GRAMMAR OF NATURE. Nature is an unbound volume.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...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;...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." That which is put into us by others is always far less ours than that which we acquire by our own diligent... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - Books and reading - 1860 - 64 pages
...furnishes the mind only with the 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." And here T wish to make an important distinction. I have said a good word for miscellaneous reading,... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pages
...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...chew them over again, they will not give us strength. Most people do not understand the meaning of Nonsense. The Duchess of Queensbury used to say, " She... | |
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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... 
