READING is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by the one health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated ; by the other virtue, which is the health of the mind, is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. The Tatler - Page 171by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
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...hint only to whom you should disclose, and from whom you should conceal them. READING. R, , E ADING is to the mind what exercise is to the body ; as by one, health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated ; by the other, virtue (which is the health... | |
| English essays - 1823 - 442 pages
...bestowed.' No. 147. SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1709-10. — Ut ameris, amabilis esto. OVID. ART. AM. ii. 107. Be lovely, that you may be lov'd. FROM MY OWN APARTMENT,...; by the other, virtue, which is the health of the inind, is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. But as exercise becomes tedious and painful, when we... | |
| English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...Apartment, March 17. READING is to the mind, what exercise it to the body. As by the one, health it preserved, strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue, which is the health of the wind, is kept alive, cherished, ami confirmed. But as enercise becomes tedious aud painful, when we... | |
| 1831 - 704 pages
...147.] Saturday, March 18, 1709-10. TJt ameris, amabilis esto. Ovid. Be lovely, that you may be loved. From my own Apartment, March 17. READING is to the...other, virtue, which is the health of the mind, is kept olive, cherished, and confirmed. But as exercise becomes tedious and painful, when wo make it of use... | |
| Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pages
...which originally appeared in the Saturday Magazine. OBSERVATIONS ON FABLES. READING, says Addison, is to the mind what exercise is to the body; as, by the one, health is preserved and invigorated, so by the other, Virtue, which may be called the health of the mind, is cherished... | |
| 430 pages
...shat exercise is to the hody. As hy the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated; hy the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind)...alive, cherished, and confirmed. But, as exercise hecomes tedious and painful, when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 536 pages
...SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1709. — Ut ameris amabilis esto. OVID.. • From my own Apartment, March 18. BEADING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by...kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. But as exercise be<cornea tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...147. SATUEDAY, MAECH 18, 1709. — Ut ameris amabilis esto. OVID. From my own Apartment, March 18. READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body....becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only an the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burthensome, when we apply ourselves to... | |
| Education - 1923 - 718 pages
...process of reading calls on all the better faculties of the human mind. ' "Reading," said Addison, "is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by...strengthened, and invigorated ; by the other, virtue (which is health of mind) is kept alive, cherished and confirmed." The very fact that we may disagree radically,... | |
| Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...between all ami One. r. VAUOBAK — The Rainbow. HEADING. Reading is to the mind, what exercise i* I can do, and my foe what I should. ]). SCHILLER—...and Fot. A friend should bear his friend's infirmiti mird)i» kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. s. ADDISOJI— The Tatler. .No. 147. Read not to contradict... | |
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