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Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Isaac D'Israeli MANY ingenious readers complain that their memory is.
Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Isaac D'Israeli MANY ingenious readers complain that their memory is.
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... memory is defective , and their studies unfruitful . This defect arises from their indulging the facile pleasures of perceptions , in preference to the labo- rious habit of forming them into ideas . Percep- tions require only the ...
... memory is defective , and their studies unfruitful . This defect arises from their indulging the facile pleasures of perceptions , in preference to the labo- rious habit of forming them into ideas . Percep- tions require only the ...
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... memory on a crowd of mediocrities . As whole nations have derived their culture from a single book , -as the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe ; as Hafiz was the eminent genius of the ...
... memory on a crowd of mediocrities . As whole nations have derived their culture from a single book , -as the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe ; as Hafiz was the eminent genius of the ...
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... memory , not merely by repetition , - though that too is of use , —but by the deeper conviction thus wrought into the mind , of their being verily and indeed truths . Desultory reading is indeed very mischiev- ous , by fostering habits ...
... memory , not merely by repetition , - though that too is of use , —but by the deeper conviction thus wrought into the mind , of their being verily and indeed truths . Desultory reading is indeed very mischiev- ous , by fostering habits ...
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... memory and understanding , but like- wise in my affections . . . . Above all , in the pres- ent age of light reading , that is , of reading has- tily , thoughtlessly , indiscriminately , unfruitfully , when most books are forgotten as ...
... memory and understanding , but like- wise in my affections . . . . Above all , in the pres- ent age of light reading , that is , of reading has- tily , thoughtlessly , indiscriminately , unfruitfully , when most books are forgotten as ...
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Page 43 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Page 56 - ... here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time...
Page 53 - There are good books for the hour, and good ones for all time ; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for all time.
Page 56 - This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved, and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.
Page 87 - For remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method also forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which is, after...
Page 24 - Yet, if time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
Page 23 - We shotild understand the circumstances which, to his mind, made it seem true, or persuaded him to write it, knowing that it was not so.
Page 60 - And it is just the same with men's best wisdom. When you come to a good book, you must ask yourself, " Am I inclined to work as an Australian miner would ? Are my pickaxes and shovels in good order, and am I in good trim myself, my sleeves well up to the elbow, and my breath good, and my temper?" And, keeping the figure a little longer, even at cost of tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which...
Page 57 - The place you desire," and the place you fit yourself for, I must also say; because, observe, this court of the past differs from all living aristocracy in this: it is open to labor and to merit, but to nothing else. No wealth will bribe, no name overawe, no artifice deceive, the guardian of those Elysian gates. In the deep sense, no vile or vulgar person ever enters there. At the portieres of that silent Faubourg St. Germain, there is but brief question: "Do you deserve...
Page 39 - ... circumstances allows to reading ; and to demonstrate that though he should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic, where none but a natural method is really pertinent. I visit occasionally the Cambridge Library, and I can seldom go there without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.