 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...  The Downside Review - Page 191885Full view - About this book
 | John Henry Newman - 1859 - 382 pages
...knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental faculties ; a boy's business, when he goes to school, is to learn,...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 pages
...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,...facts, or a receptacle for storing them ; .... he has opinions, religious, political, and literary ; and, for a boy, is very positive and studies, and... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pages
...of knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental faculties; a boy's business when he goes to school is to learn,...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... | |
 | William John R. C. Walsh (Archbishop of Dublin.), William Joseph Walsh - 1897 - 564 pages
...knowledge on a great many subjects. 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. . . . 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 pages
...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 is to learn,...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 about... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 pages
...God. MACAULAY: Essay on Milton. (2) ... Memory is one of the first developed of the mental faculties ; a boy's business when he goes to school is to learn,...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... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1906 - 286 pages
...is no less. is without; he has his eyes ever about him; he has lively susceptibility of impressions; he imbibes information of every kind; and little does he make his own in a true sense of the word, living rather upon his neighbors all around him. 38. Unity in the sentence. — The first requisite... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 340 pages
...others ? " Memory," says John Henry Newman, " is one of the first developed of the mental faculties ; a boy's business, when he goes to school, is to learn,...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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 pages
...of knowledge on a great many subjects. Memory is one of the first developed of the mental faculties; a boy's business when he goes to school is to learn,...instrument for taking in facts, or a receptacle for stor1ng them ; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him; he lives on what is without; he has his... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 pages
...on what is without; he has his eyes ever about him; he has a lively susceptibility of impressions; he imbibes information of every kind; and little does he make his own in a true sense of the word, living rather upon his neighbours all around him. He has opinions, religious, political, and literary,... | |
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