 MEMORY is, among the faculties of the human mind, that of which we make the most frequent use, or rather that of which the agency is incessant or perpetual. Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler - Page 169by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...mind, that of which we make the most frequent use, or, rather, that of which the agency is incessant or perpetual. Memory is the primary and fundamental...intellectual operation. Judgment and ratiocination supCc 2 The two offices of memory are collection and distribution; by one images are accumulated, and... | |
 | George Crabb - 1841 - 556 pages
...the makers of the word. The primary subject of consideration is that which should precede all others; 'Memory Is the primary and fundamental power, without...which there could be no other Intellectual operation.' — JOHNSON. The jmmitive state of society is that which was formed without a model, but might serve... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...mind, that of which we make the most frequent use, or rather that of which the agency is incessant or perpetual. Memory is the primary and fundamental...intellectual operation. Judgment and ratiocination suppose something already known, and draw their decisions only from experience. In the mythological... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 pages
...binding all the natural gifts and excellences together, and though it is not wisdom in itself, still it is the primary and fundamental power without which there could be no other intellectual operations. Memory is often accused of treachery and inconstancy, when, if inquired into, the fault... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise. — Life. March 19, 1776. Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without...which there could be no other intellectual operation. Memory is the purveyor of reason. — Memory Rambler, No. 41. We owe to memory not only the increase... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 pages
...binding all the natural gifts and excellences together, and though it is not wisdom in itself, still it is the primary and fundamental power without which there could be no other intellectual operations. Memory is often accused of treachery and inconstancy, when, if inquired into, the fault... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...-_L;-i_ we cannot be ¿riven, /ли f ' Memory (F.rinncr out of which w Paul. Memory is the prin ory 8 , , C , Johnson. Memory is the scribe of the souL Aritt. í Memory, of all things good remind us still : /... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone. — Beecher. MEMORY. MEMORY. Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without...which there could be no other intellectual operation. — Johnson. Memory, like books which remain a long time shut up in the dust, needs to be opened from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...mind, that of which we make the most frequent use, or rather that of which the agency is incessant or perpetual. Memory is the primary and fundamental...intellectual operation. Judgment and ratiocination suppose something already known, and draw their decisions only from experience. Imagination selects... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...mind, that of which we make the most frequent use, or rather that of which the agency is incessant or perpetual. Memory is the primary and fundamental...without which there could be no other intellectual operation."27 As epistemology, this last insight has something in common with the views of Locke and... | |
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