 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 268 pages
...bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security, perhaps unattainable by mortals. — Johnson. Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves...which all our studies may point. Through neglect of thia rule, gross ignorance often disgraces great readers ; who, by skipping hastily and irregularly... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and securh ;, perhaps unattainable by mortals. — Johnson. Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which all onr studies may point. Through neglect of this rule, gross ignorance often disgraces great readers... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 402 pages
...made the one an enlightened philosopher, and the other, to speak plainly, a pedant, puffed up with a useless erudition. Let us read with method, and propose...disgraces great readers ; who, by skipping hastily from one subject to another, render themselves incapable of combining their ideas. So many detached... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...the other, to speak plainly, • pedant,1 puffed up wifli a useless erudition.' 2. Let us read wife method, and propose to ourselves an end to which all our studies may point. Through neglect of this rule,3 gross ignorance often disgraces great readers, who, by skipping hastily and irregularly from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1867 - 972 pages
...however, loosely, by taking erratic excursion*. Have some law and rule of reading. "Let us," SMS Gibbon, "read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which all our studies may point." But, next to mathematics and the acquisition of languages, no study is calculated to discipline the... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...made the one an enlightened philosopher, and the other, to speak plainly, a pedant, puffed up with a useless erudition. Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which ail our studies may point. Through neglect of this rule, gross ignorance often disgraces great readers... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1876 - 458 pages
...up with a useless erudition. Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which ail our studies may point. Through neglect of this rule,...ignorance often disgraces great readers; who, by skipping nastily and irregularly from one subject to another, render themselves incapable of combining their... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...speak plainly.» pedant, puffed up with a useless erudition. Let us read with method, and propose ;.j imneys, while those of my sitting-room commanded a...stable-yard. I know of nothing more calculated to make a man irrtsularly from one subject to another, render themselves incapable of combining their ideas. So many... | |
 | Peter Anton - Agriculture - 1880 - 268 pages
...made the one an enlightened philosopher, and the other, to speak plainly, a pedant, puffed up with useless erudition. " Let us read with method, and...an end to which all our studies may point. Through the neglect of this rule gross ignorance often disgraces great readers ; who, by skipping hastily and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...the most experienced reader ; and his precepts, as well as example, are valuable hints to students: 'Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which all our studies may point. Detached parcels of knowledge can not form a whole .... ' While we propose an end in our reading, let... | |
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Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which all our studies may point. Through neglect of this rule, gross ignorance often disgraces great readers; who, by skipping hastily and irregularly from one subject to another, render themselves... 
