| Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 páginas
...likely to get more than he that has none. Knowledge is power. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Our knowledge, like our blood,... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...1775. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Ibid. Hell is paved with good intentions.1 Ibid. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. Ibid. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...spring ; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. (Pope. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. (Sam I Johnton. When you know a thing, to hold that yon know it ; and when you do not know a thing,... | |
| 1888 - 510 páginas
...WB House's Complete Index to the Medical World, Vol. VI, 1888. It was said once by Dr. Johnson that "knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it." And it is this latter kind of knowledge that every successful physician largely relies upon. THE MEDICAL... | |
| Halkett (i.e. Richard Halkatt Lord (ed.)) - 1883 - 602 páginas
...Johnson, ever ready for contest, instantly started from his reverie, wheeled about, and answered, 'Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we ean find information upon it. When we inquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to... | |
| 1884 - 532 páginas
...desire to look at the backs of books. ' Johnson, ever ready for contest, instantly answered, 'Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds....know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do, is to know what books have treated of it.... | |
| Book-lover - 1884 - 530 páginas
...a desire to look at the backs of books.' Johnson, ever ready for contest, instantly answered, 'Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds....know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do, is to know what books have treated of it.... | |
| 1884 - 396 páginas
...JUNE— NOVEMBER 1884. LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER Row. NEW YORK : JW BOUTON. 1884. PREFACE. " When we inquire into any subject, the first thing...we have to do is to know what books have treated of the subject ; this leads us to look at Catalogues and the places of books in Libraries."— DR. JOHNSON.... | |
| Homer - 1884 - 500 páginas
...they are. The intelligent man knows that most things are not to be known, for, as Dr. Johnson said, "Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it." The best minds are more like a card index than like a library. The ancient philosophers took pride... | |
| Johns Hopkins University - 1884 - 690 páginas
...will also prove of great practical value to teachers and pupils. " Knowledge," says Dr. Johnson, " is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Professor Allen's views concerning the topical method of historical study are best represented by one... | |
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