Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner's sons, 1881 - 434 páginas |
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... BOOKS AND READING ; AND NONE THE LESS WISELY AND EFFICIENTLY , TO THE MANY GOOD OBJECTS WHICH HAVE ENLISTED HER WOMANLY SYMPATHIES AND HER SAGACIOUS BENEVOLENCE . PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . THE papers contained in.
... BOOKS AND READING ; AND NONE THE LESS WISELY AND EFFICIENTLY , TO THE MANY GOOD OBJECTS WHICH HAVE ENLISTED HER WOMANLY SYMPATHIES AND HER SAGACIOUS BENEVOLENCE . PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . THE papers contained in.
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... from authors who might be sup- posed to be familiar to the reader . The wants of those beginning to read have been especially con- sidered , while those who are more or less fami- liar with books and practised in reading have not been V.
... from authors who might be sup- posed to be familiar to the reader . The wants of those beginning to read have been especially con- sidered , while those who are more or less fami- liar with books and practised in reading have not been V.
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... less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it also true that bad books and inferior books are far more Common than they once were . Their poison is also more subtle and less ...
... less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it also true that bad books and inferior books are far more Common than they once were . Their poison is also more subtle and less ...
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... less evil upon their children . What books shall they buy and how shall they judge of books ? Above all , how shall they train themselves and others to the best use of the books which they possess and read ? We would in these papers ...
... less evil upon their children . What books shall they buy and how shall they judge of books ? Above all , how shall they train themselves and others to the best use of the books which they possess and read ? We would in these papers ...
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... less light upon the culture and knowledge which prevailed when they were written . A very distinguished clergyman of New England , furnishes the following list of books for a young pastor in 1792. " In Divinity , you will not wonder if ...
... less light upon the culture and knowledge which prevailed when they were written . A very distinguished clergyman of New England , furnishes the following list of books for a young pastor in 1792. " In Divinity , you will not wonder if ...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Vista completa - 1871 |
Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Vista completa - 1881 |
Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Vista completa - 1871 |
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Página 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 360 - MY days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Página 102 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Página 83 - So spake the cherub, and his grave rebuke Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pined His loss; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed 850 Undaunted. If I must contend...
Página 260 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 86 - To die, to sleep; To sleep? perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Página 229 - If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet .will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.
Página 52 - Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Página 86 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep...
Página 75 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.