 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 514 páginas
...thoughts fubfcrvicnt lo that of our fubjefls ; this would be to (acrifire the principal to the accclTory. The ufe of our reading is to aid us in thinking. The perafal of a particular work gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the fubjeft of which it... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1797 - 612 páginas
...careful, not to make the order of onr thoughts fubfervient to that of our fubjedts ; this would be to facrifice the principal to the acceflbry. The ufe...gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the fubject of which it treats. I will) to purfue thefe ideas ; they withdraw me from my propofed plan... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1797 - 292 páginas
...thoughts fubfervient to that of our fubjects; this would be to facririce the principal to the acceffory. The ufe of our reading is to aid us in thinking. The...gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the fubject of which it treats. I wilh to purfue thefe ideas ; they withdraw me from my propofed plan of... | |
 | 1799 - 458 páginas
...fubfervient to that of our fubjefls; this would be to facrifice the principal to the acceflary. Tin The ufe of our reading; is to aid us in thinking. The perufal of a particular work gives hirth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the fubject of which it treats. I wifli to purfue thefe ideas... | |
 | 1849 - 604 páginas
...accomplish : ' We ought to attend ' not so much to the order of our books, as of our thoughts. ' The perusal of a particular work gives birth perhaps to ideas ' unconnected with the subject it treats ; I pursue these ideas, ' and quit my proposed plan of reading.'* .... ' I sus' pended... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 páginas
...Gibbon says, we ought not to attend to the order of our books, so much as of our thoughts. The perusal of a particular work gives birth perhaps to ideas unconnected, with the subject it treats ; I pursue these ideas and quit my proposed plan of reading. Thus, in the midst of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 páginas
...ought, (says he) not to attend to the order of our books, so much as of our thoughts. " The perusal of a particular work gives birth perhaps to ideas unconnected with the subject it treats ; I pursue these ideas and quit my proposed plan of reading." Thus in the midst of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 672 páginas
...sacrifice the principal to the accessory. The use of our reading is to aid u> in thinking. The perusal of a particular work gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the subject of which it treats. I wish to pursue these ideas; they withdraw me from my proposed plan of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 páginas
...ought, says he, not to attend to the order of our books, so much as of our thoughts. " The perusal of a particular work gives birth perhaps to ideas unconnected with the subject it treats ; I pursue these ideas, and quit my proposed plan of reading." Thus in the midst... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 páginas
...ought, says he, not to attend to the order of our books, so much as of our thoughts. " The perusal of a particular work gives birth perhaps to ideas unconnected with the subject it treats ; I pursue these ideas, and quit my proposed plan of reading." Thus in the midst... | |
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The perusal of a particular work gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the subject of which it treats. I wish to pursue these ideas ; they withdraw me from my proposed plan of reading, and throw me into a new track, and from thence, perhaps... 
