 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pagine
...lying by you, and conftantly recurred to ; without which, hiftory is only a confufed heap of faAs. One method more I recommend to you, by which I have found great benefit, even in the moft diffipated part of my life ; that is, to rife early, and at the fame hour every morning, how late... | |
 | English instructor - 1801 - 272 pagine
...and not for pedantic quotations. Never read history without having maps , and a chronological book , or tables , lying by you , and constantly recurred...confused heap of facts. One method more I recommend lo j'ou , by which I have Vand great bene'it , even in the most dissipated part of my life; that is... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1801 - 474 pagine
...conftantly recurred to ; without which, hiftory is only a confuted heap of fafts. One method more 1 recommend to you, by which I have found great benefit, even in the moft diflipated part of my life ; that is, to rife early, and at the fame hour every morning, how late... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - 1810 - 456 pagine
...recommend to you, hy which I have found great henefit, even in the most dissipated part of my life; this is, to rise early, and at the same hour, every morning, how late soever you may have sat up the night hefore. This secures you an hour or two, at least, of reading or reflection, hefore the common... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pagine
...and not for pedantic quotations. Never read history without having maps, and a chronological book, or tables, lying by you, and constantly recurred to...my life ; that is, to rise early, and at the same honr every morning, how late soever you may have sat up the night before. You will say, it may be,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pagine
...reeommend to you, by whieh 1 have found great benefit, even in the most dissipated pnrtof my life ; this is, to rise early, and at the same hour, every morning, how late soever you may have sat up the night before. This SBeures you an hour or two, at least of reading or refleetion, before the eommon... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pagine
...authors, upon different subjects.—Never read history without having maps, and a chronological book or tables, lying by you, and constantly recurred to; without which, history is a confused heap of facts.—At your spare moments, take up a good book of rational amusement, and detached... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1815 - 360 pagine
...and not for pedantic quotations. Never read History without having maps , and a chronological book , or tables , lying by you , and constantly recurred...without which History is only a confused heap of facts. You will say, it may be, as many young people would , that all this order and method is very troublesome... | |
 | 1821 - 426 pagine
...authors, upon different subjects. — Never read history without having maps, and a chronological book or tables, lying by you, and constantly recurred to ; without which, history is a confused heap of facts.— At your spare moments, take up a good book of rational amusement, and... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pagine
...authors, upon different subjects. — Never read history without having maps, and a chronological book of tables, lying by you, and constantly recurred to ; without which, history is a confused heap of facts. — At your spare moments, take up a good book of rational amusement, and... | |
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... manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects. Keep a useful and short common-place book of what you read, to help your memory only, and not for pedantic quotations. Never read history without having maps,... 
