 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, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the...  The history of freemasonry - Page 336by Robert Freke Gould - 1885Full view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 the cloud that had hidden it has .paft away, is again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,.... | |
 | 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, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...effaces the whole feries of unwritten hiftory. Books are faithful repofitories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...feries of unwritten hiftory. Books are faithful repofirorit s, which may b£ a while 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1791 - 458 pages
...the whole feries of unwritten hiftory. Books are faithful repofitories, which may be a while negle&ed or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftrudion : memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...while neglccted «r forgotten ; but when they are opened again, .will again impart their inftruction,j memory once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...luminary) which, after the cloud that had hidden it has paft away, is again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a O ,meteor, rnettor, which, if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, \vhich may be a while neglected or forgotten ', but when...interrupted, is not to be recalled, "Written learning is a fixe.1 luminary, >IVhich, after the cloud that had hidden it R has past away, is again bright in its... | |
 | 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...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has paft away, is again bright in its proper ftation. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...particular inftances have been given, with fuch evidence as neither Bacon nor Eayle has been able to or forgotten ; but when they are opened again, will again impart their inftruction : memory, once interrupted, is not to he recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary,... | |
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