 Overburden not thy memory to make so faithful a servant a slave ! Remember Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load. Memory, like a purse, if it be overfull that it cannot shut, all will drop out...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 82by William Chambers - 1853Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1831
...— Southey and his Mode of Living at Keswick — his Mental Alienation. " MEMORY," says Fuller, " is like a purse ; if it be over-full, that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Marshal thy notions into a handsome method. One will carry twice more weight trussed and packed... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1829 - 464 pages
...clinching it the next morning. Overburthen not thy memory to make so faithful a servant a slave. Remember Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load. Memory, like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it : take heed of a gluttonous... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Biography - 1831 - 352 pages
...clinching it the next morning. Overburthen not thy memory to make so faithful a servant a slave. Remember Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load. Memory, like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...clinching it the next morning. Overburthen not thy memory to make so faithful a servant a slave. Remember, Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load. Memory, like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it: take heed of a gluttonous... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...advises us not to overhurthen the memory, and not to make so faithful a servant a slave. " Rememher," says he, that " Atlas was weary. Have as much reason...hast thy full load. Memory is like a purse, if it he over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out." The same writer makes a ludicrous ohservation... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...virtue, how many would they win to their cause. — Usher. Overburthened Memory. — Remember that even Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to...hast thy full load. Memory is like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out. — Fuller. Stage Propriely.— The following anecdote... | |
 | 1840 - 468 pages
...came gushing from it. Overburthenment of the Memory.- — " Remember," says old Fuller, " that even Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to...hast thy full load. Memory is like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out. Solomon is the great wonder-worker of Palestine ;... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Biography - 1840 - 420 pages
...it the next morning. 4. Overburthen not thy memory, to make so faithful a servant a slave. Remember Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load . Memory, like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Biography - 1841 - 494 pages
...the next morning. IV. Overburden not thy memory, to make so faithful a servant a slave. — Remember, Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, —...be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...clinching it the next morning. Overburden not thy memory to make so faithful a servant a slave. Remember Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load. Memory, like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it: take heed of a gluttonous... | |
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