 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 346by Samuel Johnson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 280 pages
...opened again, will again impart their inftruQion : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recall'. d. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after...meteor, which, if once it falls,. cannot be rekindled.. * Itfeems to be univerfally fuppofed, that much of the local hiftory was preferved by the Bards,. of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidS dea den it has paft away, is again bright in it* proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which,... | |
 | Donald MacNicol - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1779 - 392 pages
...they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction : memory once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden has patted away, is again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a 5 meteor, meteor, which,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1785 - 400 pages
...to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidS deo den* it has paft away, is again bright in its proper ftation....fuppofed, that much of the local hiftory was preferved bythe Bards, of whom one is faid to. have been retained by every great family. After thefe Bards were... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...recalled. Written learning is a rixcd luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has part away, is again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if onee it falls, cannot be rekindled. It feen,s to be uqiverfally fuppofed, that much of the local hiftory... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...they are opened again, .will again impart their inftruction,j memory once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary) which,...again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a O ,meteor, rnettor, which, if once its falls, cannot be rekindkd. It feems to be univerfally fuppofed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...>IVhich, after the cloud that had hidden it R has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled. It seems to be universall supposed, that much of the local history was preserved by the Bards, of whom... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...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 cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...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 cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if onoe it falls,... | |
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