 | John Locke - 1802 - 184 pages
...Those who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too; hut it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what ' wereadoursy We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load... | |
 | John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...\vhp have read of every filing, are taught to understand every tiling too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking iniikes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...•who have read of eye|^- thing, are thought to understand every thing too; but it is 'not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kinfl, and: it1 is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 178 pages
...who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what we read eurs. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...knowledge, it is thinking makes what we read ours. We arc of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections... | |
 | 1820 - 390 pages
...for so doing. FOR THE POCKET MAGAZINE. ESSAY BASIL. ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN READING AND STUDY. " Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...knowledge ; it is -thinking makes what we read ours." Locke. AS the great philosopher above quoted intimates, we should discriminate between readmg, and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pages
...Safe in ourulixs, while on ourselves we stand, The sea is curt, and that defends the land. Dryden. Reading 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 collections -, unless we chew them over... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pages
...their country, boasting not a foot of ground in all its wide domain ? READING only furnishes the mind with materials of knowledge. It is thinking makes what we read ours. MEN have more strength, women more flexibility ; men listen, arrange, compose, and deduce ; women combine,... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1843 - 352 pages
...those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too ; bnt it is not always so. Reading 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 cram ourselves... | |
 | 1843 - 798 pages
...those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that make» what we read ours. We are of the ruminating k.ind, and it is not enough to cram ourthe... | |
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Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. 
