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" 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 55
por Walter Scott - 1842
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Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, Volumen1

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen186

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...
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An Illustration of the Principles of Elocution ...

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...
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Waverley Novels, Volumen1

Sir Walter Scott - 1830 - 458 páginas
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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since. 3 vols. [in 1].

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...
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His ..., Volumen2

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...
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The Lady of the Lake

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....
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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volumen2

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...
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The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes, Volumen1

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...
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Waverley

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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