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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... "
Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides: In which are ... - Page 219
by Donald MacNicol - 1779 - 371 pages
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Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property

Kevin Hart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 254 pages
...he draws on his Hebridean correspondence and writes about writing: 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,...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Ch. 20 20:18 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,...
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Language Death

David Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 212 pages
...on the differences between a written and an unwritten language:25 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,...
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Language Death

David Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 212 pages
...differences between a written and an unwritten language: 25 Books are faithful repositories, which maybe 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,...
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