 | Valentine Durrant - 1878 - 370 pages
..." I am glad to sec the old friends again ; truly did Johnson say, 'Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten, but,...when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.' " "It is a privilege we shall miss very much. When her ladyship arrives we shall be forced... | |
 | Robert Freke Gould - 1885 - 304 pages
...generation of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten, but,...when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - Homiletical illustrations - 1885 - 908 pages
...1672-1719 BOOKS. 4. Sure storehouses of truth. (658.) Cooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again will again impart their instruction. Memory once interrupted is not to be recalled ; written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...perfections to be plain and brief. Butler. REPOSITORIES. Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. Jomon. THE MOST VALUABLE. Many books require no thought from those who read them, for... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...Channing. Books are embalmed minds. — Bmee. Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled ; written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1906 - 270 pages
...effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary... | |
 | Books - 1907 - 156 pages
...flame over the world. * » » Dr. Johnson. — Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. Hon. TF Bayard.— To-day the smallest coin of the realm will suffice to procure copies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...generation of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or {forgotten ; but...when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not ' to be recalled!? Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - History - 1997 - 450 pages
...generation of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Mathematics - 1998 - 450 pages
...sec. 1 ot his Essay on the History ot Civil Soriety (74-8 1 ). 53. "Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten: but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written language is a fixed luminary,... | |
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the... 
