“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.” MayBookUsePleasureKnowledgeStudyConversationDrawsMethodNotionEngagedCharmMultitudesInvitationsCouchesComprehensionSlothRectify Book:A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians Source: A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians
“A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.” MayConditionsConstitutionReactionsRationalEngagedFollyGuaranteesExcessIrrationalRivalsOpposingDegeneratesCredulitySlenderScepticism Author:William E. Gladstone