 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1860 - 320 pages
...more into vogue than any other author of our times." " Reading is to the mind," continues the writer " what exercise is to the body: as, by the one, health...use of it only as the means of health, so reading is too apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue.... | |
 | Aesopus - 1861 - 254 pages
...omit the excellent Preface by which the Fable is introduced, " Reading is to the mind*," says he, " what exercise is to the body : as by the one, health...use of it only as the means of health, so reading is too apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue.... | |
 | Aesop - Fables - 1863 - 372 pages
...which the Fable is introduced. " Reading is to the mind,"* says he, " what exercise is to the body; and by the one health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated;...use of it only as the means of health, so reading is too apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement. For... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...And minds the covenant between all and One. ». VAUGHAS — 77ic Л'ат/xjw. BEADING. Reading Í4to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health i» preberved, strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mied)... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...POPE. There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Bough-hew them as we may. SHAKESPEARE. READING. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by...the mind) is kept alive, cherished and confirmed. ADDISON. Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 262 pages
...understanding. — " Love for Love." SIR RICHARD STEELE. 1671—1729. Beading is to the mind, what exereise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved,...strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (whieh is the health of the mind) is kept alive, eherished and eonfirmed. Bat as exereise beeomes tedious... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1888 - 1260 pages
...mind what exercise is to the body. As by one the health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated, so by the other virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished and confined." Since this is literally true, every one should be as careful to avoid light and unwholesome... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...throne, And minds the covenant between all and One. )•. VAUGHAS — The Rainbow. BEADING. Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by...the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. s. ADDISON -The Taller. No. 147. Head not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,... | |
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N- 147. SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1709-1O. — — Ut emtris, anat.lii este. OVID. — — Be lovely, that you may be lovM. From my own Apartment, March 17. HEADING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened,... 
