 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagina’s
...though to be sure, if a man has a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance." He added, "What we read with inclination makes a much stronger...there is but one half to be employed on what we read." 1 Tranio in " The Taming of the Shrew " had given much the same advice to his master, Lucentio : "... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagina’s
...though to be sure, if a man has a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance." He added, "What we read with inclination makes a much stronger...there is but one half to be employed on what we read." l Tranio in " The Taming of the Shrew " had given much the same advice to his master, Lucentio: " No... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pagina’s
...a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance. What we read with inclination makes a stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the aitention, so there is but half to be employed on what we read. — Johnson. I think that a person... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 pagina’s
...a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance. What we read with inclination makes a stronger impression. If we read without inclination,...employed in fixing the attention ; so there is but half to be employed on what we read. I read Fielding's Amelia through without stopping. If a man begins... | |
 | Hiram Miner Stanley - 1895 - 410 pagina’s
...remark upon the way in which attention may be divisive of cognition. Boswell makes Dr. Johnson to say, " If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention ; so that there is but one half to be employed on what we read." But admitting the necessity of intrinsic... | |
 | 1896 - 864 pagina’s
...should read whatever his immediate inclination prompted him to. He also said, wisely enough, that when we read without inclination, half the mind is employed...there is but one half to be employed on what we read. Of course if a science has to be learned, a task must be prescribed, but that is not our point." "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pagina’s
...to be sure, if a man has a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance. He added, " what we read with inclination makes a much stronger...there is but one half to be employed on what we read." He told us, he read Fielding's •' Amelia " through without stopping.* He said, " if a man begins... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagina’s
...to be sure, if a man has a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance. He added, " S " " " He told us he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping.* He said, " If a man begins to read... | |
 | William Harold Payne - 1901 - 286 pagina’s
...only by this concert of will and pleasure that we can do with our might what our hands find to do. "If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention, so there is but onehalf to be employed on what we read."* I allow that sometimes, at the very beginning, we must constrain... | |
 | William Harold Payne - 1901 - 286 pagina’s
...only by this concert of will and pleasure that we can do with our might what our hands find to do. " If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention, so there ia but onehalf to be employed on what we read."* I allow that sometimes, at the very beginning, we... | |
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He told us, he read Fielding's Amelia through without stopping *. He said,' if a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it, to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. 
