 | Thomas Arnold - 1846 - 588 pages
...hearing and asking questions : the one is almost useless without the other. We should ask qnestions of our book and of ourselves ; what is its purpose...to make any portion of it yield its fruits for our nourish, ment and enjoyment. Happily indeed the choice is fixed for most of us, our calling in life... | |
 | Maria Georgina Grey, Emily Anne E. Shirreff - Self-culture - 1850 - 308 pages
...subject is consequently impossible. Dr. Arnold, speaking of the right method of reading, says : — " We should ask questions of our book and of ourselves...how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not?"* * Lecture read before Rugby Literary Society. Wherever, in such a series of questions, we fail to give... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...subject is consequently impossible. Dr. Arnold, speaking of the right method of reading, says : — " We should ask questions of our book and of ourselves...and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not ? " * Wherever, in such a series of questions, we fail to give a satisfactory answer, we must return... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 156 pages
...asking questions — the one is almost useless without the other. We should ask questions of our books and of ourselves — what is its purpose — by what...and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not ? Questioning has also a place in Rhetoric as well as in research. Frankly conducted, it is a mode... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 154 pages
...other. We should ask questions of our books and of ourselves — what is its purpose — by what meana it proceeds to effect that purpose — whether we...and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not ? Questioning has also a place in Rhetoric as well as in research. Frankly conducted, it is a mode... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 160 pages
...descriptions convey lively and distinct images to us ? do we understand all the allusions to persona or things ? In short, does our mind act over again...and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not ? Questioning has also a place in Rhetoric as well as in research. Frankly conducted, it is a mode... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1863 - 254 pages
...asking questions ; the one is almost useless without the other. We should ask questions of our books and of ourselves, what is its purpose, by what means...and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not ? Questioning has also a place in rhetoric as well as in research. Frankly conducted, it is a mode... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...again from the writer's guidance what his acted before; do we reason as he reasoned, conceive аа he conceived, think and feel as he thought and felt;...and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not ? — Dr. Arnold. .— Bapid The beet way of reading books with rapidity is to acquire that habit of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...detect his fallacies, and examine his conclusions. Or, to adopt Dr. Arnold's words : — " We must ask questions of our book and of ourselves ; what...and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not 1 " The answers to these questions cannot be given without a close and careful study such as few young... | |
 | - 1881 - 854 pages
...us he reasoned, conceive as he conceived, think and feel as he thought and felt ; or, if not, «fcn we discern where and how far we do not, and can we tell why we do not ? " The answers to these questions cannot be given without a close and careful study such as few young... | |
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We should ask questions of our books and of ourselves, what is its purpose, by what means it proceeds to effect that purpose, whether we fully understand the one, whether we go along with the other. Do the arguments satisfy us ? do the descriptions convey... 
