| John Locke - 1823 - 202 sivua
...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...are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give, would be of... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 518 sivua
...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...; all the rest at best are but particulars fit to be turned into knowledge ; but that can be done only by our own meditation, and examining the reach,... | |
| Henry Forster Burder - 1827 - 150 sivua
...the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections : — there are indeed in some writers visible instances...use, if their reader would observe and imitate them : — but that can be done only by our own meditation." In the spirit of these remarks it may be observed,... | |
| John Locke - 1828 - 422 sivua
...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...them; all the rest at best are but particulars fit to be turned into knowledge ; but that can be done only by our own meditation, and examining the reach,... | |
| John Locke - 1828 - 432 sivua
...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...give would be of great use, if their reader would observ^ and imitate them; all the rest at best are but particulars fit to be turned into knowledge... | |
| John Locke - 1828 - 602 sivua
...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...are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give, would be of... | |
| 1828 - 394 sivua
...benefit the possessor. " We are of the ruminating kind," says a learned writer, " and it is not.enough to cram ourselves with a great load; of collections...nourishment. There are, indeed, in some writers visible instanoes of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would... | |
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 sivua
...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...indeed, in some writers, visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give would be of... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 sivua
...furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what we read ears : it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of...chew them over again, they will not give us strength. Locke. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal farther than we usually do, would... | |
| Rev. Charles BRIDGES - 1830 - 696 sivua
...ourselves with a great load of collections. — There are indeed in some writers instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued....use, if their reader would observe and imitate them — but that can be done only by our own meditation. ' Conduct of the Understanding, § 43. Lord Bacon's... | |
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