 | John Henry Newman - 1859 - 382 Seiten
...nothing more or less than a place for acquiring a great deal of knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental...his intellect is little more than an instrument for 1 Vid. the Author's University (Oxford) Sermons. taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1867 - 584 Seiten
...her neck, her boy leaves her to go to college. There he remains seven or eight years.* He plays, * " A boy's business when he goes to school is to learn,...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them ; .... he has opinions, religious, political, and literary ; and, for a boy, is very positive and studies,... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 Seiten
...nothing more or less than a place for acquiring a great deal of knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them ; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him ; he lives on what is without; he has his eyes ever... | |
 | 1885 - 326 Seiten
...subject Cardinal Newman says :— " Memory is one of the first developed of the mental faculties ; and a boy's business, when he goes to school, is to learn,...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them ; — he imbibes information of every kind ; and little does he make his own in a true sense of the... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1895 - 302 Seiten
...nothing more or less than a place for acquiring a great deal of knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them ; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him ; he lives on what is without ; he has his eyes ever... | |
 | William John R. C. Walsh (Archbishop of Dublin.), William Joseph Walsh - 1897 - 564 Seiten
...nothing more or less than a place for cquiring a great deal of knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental...learn, that is, to store up things in his memory. . . . The same notion possesses the public mind when it passes on from the thought of a school to that... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 Seiten
...of knowledge on a great many subjects. _Memnry is one of thp first Hwp]ftpf;ri nf fjj^ •^r-mental faculties ; a boy's business when he goes to school...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them : he welcomes them as fast as they come to lihn ; he lives on what is without ; he has his eyes ever... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 Seiten
...all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. MACAULAY: Essay on Milton. (2) ... Memory is one of the first developed of the mental...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them ; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him; he lives on what is without ; he has his eyes ever... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 Seiten
...nothing more or less than a place for acquiring a great deal of knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them ; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him; he lives on what is without; he has his eyes ever about... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 344 Seiten
...priggishness that will result in immodesty and disrespect for others? " Memory," says John Henry Newman, " is one of the first developed of the mental faculties;...taking in facts, or a receptacle for storing them; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him; he lives on what is without; he has his eyes ever about... | |
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Memory is one of the first developed of the mental faculties; a boy's business when he goes to school is to learn, that is, to store up things in his memory. For some years his intellect is little more than an instrument for taking in facts, or a receptacle... 
