...true learning above your shelves.' On the Improvement of the Mind, ch. i. Thus again Mr. Locke— ' Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...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...

...it makes some pregnant remarks pertinent to the futility of thoughtless perusal. Reading [he says] furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. . . . The mind is backward in itself to be at the pains to trace every argument to its original, and...

...your house clean." In more general terms, the wisli denoted, "Peace be to the house." THINKING. — Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...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...

...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. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves...

...mitigate the sorroiu that fotvs therefrom. READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge j it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of...kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a load of collections j unless we chew them over again, they will not give us any strength. ETIQUETTE,...

...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...

...remembering what he has read. — Dr. \\atts on the Mind, pp. 61, 62, 66, 67. 72, 73. " Says Locke. 'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.' . . . Says Dugald Stewart, ' nothing, in truth, has such a tendency...

...reflection. Books can afford but little improvement to those who do not think as well as read " Says Locke, 'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.' . . . Says Dugald Stewart, ' nothing, in truth, has such a tendency...

...advanced аЪоте what is human I— Seneca. READING furnishes the mind only with the material« of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours....collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not giïe us strength and nourishment — Loch. How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good, whilst...

...knowledge than we should acquire eloquence by learning the words in a lexicon. " Reading," says Locke, " furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge...We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough that we • cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they...