 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 Dublin Review - Page 415publié par - 1867Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1885 - 326 pages
...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,...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 word ; —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
...does he make his own in a true sense of the word, living rather upon his neighbors all around him. He has opinions, religious, political and literary, and, for a boy, is very positive in them and sure about them; but he gets them from his schoolfellows, or his masters, or his parents,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1911 - 614 pages
...perfectly liberal than knowledge of philosophy ? What answer might Newman make to this objection ? 15. ' A boy's business when he goes to school is to learn,...more than an instrument for taking in facts, or a receptable for storing them.' Does it appear tliat this represents Newman's view of what ought to be,... | |
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