 | Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 610 sivua
...MIND. 455 upon all the different fubjefts which may pafs unde our review. Nothing, in truth, has fuch a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention,...the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extenfive and various reading, without reflexion. The activity and force of the mind are gradually... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 sivua
...weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extenfive and various reading, without reflection. The activity and force of the mind are gradually impaired, in confequence of difufe; and not unfrequently all our principles and opinions come to be loft, in the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 sivua
...subjects which may pass under our review. Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not «nly the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers...gradually impaired, in consequence of disuse ; and not (mfrequently all our principles and opinions come to be lost in the infinite multiplicity and discordancy... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 sivua
...opportunity of displaying themselves upon all the different subjects which iray pass under our review. Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the uit?¡!ectuH powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection. The... | |
 | Hezekiah G. Ufford - 1823 - 200 sivua
...manner. Q, What important remark has Mr. Stewart relative to method in reading ? A. " Nothing (says he) has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...in consequence of disuse, and not unfrequently, all dur principles and opinions come to be lost, in the infinite multiplicity and discordancy of our acquired... | |
 | Nathaniel Appleton Haven - 1827 - 404 sivua
...idleness is not better, for every intellectual purpose, than indolent reading. " Nothing," says Stewart, " has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." The divided attention we often give to discourses at church, is a habit very injurious to the memory. We... | |
 | Nathaniel Appleton Haven - 1827 - 406 sivua
...idleness is not better, for every intellectual purpose, than indolent reading. " Nothing," says Stewart, " has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." The divided attention we often give to discourses at church, is a habit very injurious to the memory. We... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1827 - 512 sivua
...in a hurried and careless manner. This is injurious to the memory. " Nothing (says Dugald Stewart) has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." Always make it a rule fully to understand what is gone over. Those, who are determined to grapple with... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 sivua
...on in a hurried and careless manner. This is injurious to the memory. " Nothing, (saysDugald Stuart) has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...extensive and various reading without reflection." Always make it a rule fully to understand what is gone over. Those, who are determined to grapple with... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 sivua
...in a hurried and careless manner. This is injurious to the memory. " Nothing, (says Dugald Stuart) has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers...intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive aud various reading without reflection." Always make it a rule fully to understand what is gone over.... | |
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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 reading without reflection. 
