... one 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,... A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 155by Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 235 pagesFull 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...again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,. cannot be rekindled.. * Itfeems to be univerfally fuppofed, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...while neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...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
...while neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction : memory once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...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. Tradition, is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled. It feems to be univerfally fuppofed, that much... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...awhile neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled. It feems to be univerfally fuppofed, that much... | |
| 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 - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...while neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled. It feems to be univerfally fuppofed, that much... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to he recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which,...again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled. It feems to be univerfally fuppofed, that much... | |
| 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... | |
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