 | David Crystal - 2002 - 212 pages
...while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls,... | |
 | David Crystal - 2002 - 212 pages
...luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has past away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled. Just because a language is written down does not automatically mean it will survive, of course, as... | |
 | 1912 - 834 pages
..." Ride to York " ? ELH TEW. Upham Rectory, Hants. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. vi. 230). — " Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled," is the exact wording in Johnson's ' Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,' as printed in his... | |
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the... 
