I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
Quotes about recollect (15 Quotes)
This is the Hour of Lead Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow First Chill then Stupor then the letting go .
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
It was imperative that we assembled a group of people who were truly committed to the business and getting it through thick and thin. People probably don't recollect quite how difficult it was for the company to attract good talent and keep them motivated.
You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains Oh what hours of transport we shall spend And when we do return, it shall not be like other travelers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travelers.
I do not recollect when I had such a mental treat.
I recollect an acquaintance saying to me that 'the Oriel Common Room stank of Logic.'
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."
Pain has an element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun or if there were A time when it was not....
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle.