Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 378 páginas |
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... the objection noticed by the elder D'Israeli , that they necessarily fall behind the times the mo- ment they come up to them . A course of reading that should be complete in one month must begin to be 10 [ CHAP . I. Books and Reading .
... the objection noticed by the elder D'Israeli , that they necessarily fall behind the times the mo- ment they come up to them . A course of reading that should be complete in one month must begin to be 10 [ CHAP . I. Books and Reading .
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... begin to be defec- tive the next . Courses of reading from an elder adviser or friend to a pupil or protégé , even if they are hastily prepared , serve a good purpose as pictures of the times . They cast more or less light upon the ...
... begin to be defec- tive the next . Courses of reading from an elder adviser or friend to a pupil or protégé , even if they are hastily prepared , serve a good purpose as pictures of the times . They cast more or less light upon the ...
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... begin to converse with a man - good , bad or indifferent as the case may be — with a man perhaps in his very best or worst phase or condition . If then you would scorn to take lessons or receive influences from an ignora- mus , a knave ...
... begin to converse with a man - good , bad or indifferent as the case may be — with a man perhaps in his very best or worst phase or condition . If then you would scorn to take lessons or receive influences from an ignora- mus , a knave ...
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... begin . The one reason why reading is so dull to multitudes of active and eager minds is that they have not acquired the habit of at- tending to books . The eye may be fastened upon the page , and the mind may follow the lines , and yet ...
... begin . The one reason why reading is so dull to multitudes of active and eager minds is that they have not acquired the habit of at- tending to books . The eye may be fastened upon the page , and the mind may follow the lines , and yet ...
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... begin a course of reading ? What do you think will interest me ? " Sometimes a person asks these questions of himself . More frequently he addresses them to another . The best answers which can be given to them are suggested by other ...
... begin a course of reading ? What do you think will interest me ? " Sometimes a person asks these questions of himself . More frequently he addresses them to another . The best answers which can be given to them are suggested by other ...
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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 - 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 84 - Ye have the account Of my performance; what remains, ye Gods, But up and enter now into full bliss ? " So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears, On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.
Página 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
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 120 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Página 245 - He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Página 278 - 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 244 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Página 378 - My thoughts are with the Dead ; with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind.
Página 247 - 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.