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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... gives an account of the discovery of your country by the white man , will be found the sufficient reason why his majesty , our king , has a right to burn your towns , to shoot down your people , to take possession of your land CHAP . I ...
... gives an account of the discovery of your country by the white man , will be found the sufficient reason why his majesty , our king , has a right to burn your towns , to shoot down your people , to take possession of your land CHAP . I ...
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... give a complete catalogue of the best books , even in a few departments of literature , would be quite impossible . Such a catalogue would be dry reading at best - as dry as a volume of statistics , or a report of the census , and of ...
... give a complete catalogue of the best books , even in a few departments of literature , would be quite impossible . Such a catalogue would be dry reading at best - as dry as a volume of statistics , or a report of the census , and of ...
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... give some direction to the taste , and this without the dry and formal precepts of the schools , or the captious and positive dogmatism of the professed critic . The taste , as applied to books and reading , like the eye for color and ...
... give some direction to the taste , and this without the dry and formal precepts of the schools , or the captious and positive dogmatism of the professed critic . The taste , as applied to books and reading , like the eye for color and ...
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... give command over them upon good principles . To read profitably we should always then have some object in view more than merely to pass away time , by letting words run off our tongue or through our minds . *** Order and system in any ...
... give command over them upon good principles . To read profitably we should always then have some object in view more than merely to pass away time , by letting words run off our tongue or through our minds . *** Order and system in any ...
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... gives all its life to literature and most of the zest and value to read- ing . There is some truth in all this ; or rather , there is a truth which is perverted into this caricature and error . What the truth is , and how far it may be ...
... gives all its life to literature and most of the zest and value to read- ing . There is some truth in all this ; or rather , there is a truth which is perverted into this caricature and error . What the truth is , and how far it may be ...
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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.