 | 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
...effaces the whole feries of unwritten hiftory. Books are faithful repofitories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened...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
...effaces the whole feries of unwritten hiftory. Books are faithful repofitories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened...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, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...neglected G £ 3 w or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruftion: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a rixcd luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has part away, is again bright in its proper... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1791 - 458 pages
...while negle&ed or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftrudion : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hid* S dea den it has paft away, is again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...while neglccted Ğr forgotten ; but when they are opened again, .will again impart their inftruction,j memory once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...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
...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 fixe.1 luminary, >IVhich, after the cloud that had hidden it R has past away, is again bright in its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...while ne. glected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...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,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...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, which, after tha cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...while neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...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,... | |
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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... 
