With a desire of amusement therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge, young Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more... Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy Mannering - Página 55por Walter Scott - 1842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Scott - 1815 - 310 páginas
...what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey. With a desire of amusement therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst...with the same powers of mind, the poor student is Ihnited to a narrow circle for indulging his passion for books, and must necessarily make himself master... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 páginas
...me if I do not write I ' yet he would gladly turn to anything rather than the self-inflicted task. ' Young Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder.' Scott has used the same image with reference to himself. ' Nothing, perhaps, increases by indulgence... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey. With a desire of amusement, therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst...such opportunities of gratifying it. I believe one reason'why such numerous instances of erudition occur among the lower rank is, that, with the same... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1830 - 458 páginas
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| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 780 páginas
...what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey. With a desire of amusement, therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst...believe one reason why such numerous instances of eruditions occur among the lower ranks is, that, with the same powers of mind, the poor student is... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 páginas
...therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge, youn? Wayerley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without...instances of erudition occur among the lower ranks ia, that, with the same powers of mind, the poor student is limited to a narrow circle for indulging... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 394 páginas
...his death-bed when the sad tidings were communicated to Mm of the death of his friend, Sir Walter. through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder;" he, therefore, entered College ( 1 783) with a great quantity of ill-arranged general information.... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 712 páginas
...therefore, which belter discipline might* eoon huye converted into a thirst for knowledge, young Wayerley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without...one reason why such numerous instances of erudition occar among the lower ranks is, that, with the same power» of mind, the poor student is limited to... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 páginas
...therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge, voting Wavcrley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without...a rudder. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence mure than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. 1 believe... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 604 páginas
...what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey. With a desire of amusement therefore, which oetter discipline might soon have converted into a thirst...numerous instances of erudition occur among the lower rank is, that, with the same powers of mind, the poor student is limited to a narrow circle for indulging... | |
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