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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... OPINIONS AND PRINCIPLES . CHAPTER VII . THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF BOOKS AND READING . - THE READ- ING OF FICTION . 48 62 122 72 CHAPTER VIII . IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE : ITS REPRESENTATIONS OF MORAL EVIL . 81 CHAPTER IX . THE RELIGIOUS ...
... OPINIONS AND PRINCIPLES . CHAPTER VII . THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF BOOKS AND READING . - THE READ- ING OF FICTION . 48 62 122 72 CHAPTER VIII . IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE : ITS REPRESENTATIONS OF MORAL EVIL . 81 CHAPTER IX . THE RELIGIOUS ...
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... opinion is well expressed in the lines " " Tis pleasant , sure , to see one's name in print ; A book's a book , although there's nothing in't . " Following this tradition there are very intelligent men who would never think of spending ...
... opinion is well expressed in the lines " " Tis pleasant , sure , to see one's name in print ; A book's a book , although there's nothing in't . " Following this tradition there are very intelligent men who would never think of spending ...
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... opinion is to be expressed , it may be looked at from every side and in all its relations . What is spoken cannot be re- called , but what is written can be revised . The mind in its calmer mood can qualify and withdraw what it penned ...
... opinion is to be expressed , it may be looked at from every side and in all its relations . What is spoken cannot be re- called , but what is written can be revised . The mind in its calmer mood can qualify and withdraw what it penned ...
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... in England is generally given to horses , but in Scotland sup- ports the people . " The private opinions of Noah Web- ster look out very plainly through the judicial gravity with CHAP . II . ] 23 What a Book is , and what it is to read .
... in England is generally given to horses , but in Scotland sup- ports the people . " The private opinions of Noah Web- ster look out very plainly through the judicial gravity with CHAP . II . ] 23 What a Book is , and what it is to read .
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... opinions have to be spoken or their individual feelings expressed , it will be done with an energy of words , an intensity of expression , which betrays them as the author's own . Dante and Milton , 24 [ CHAP . IT . Books and Reading .
... opinions have to be spoken or their individual feelings expressed , it will be done with an energy of words , an intensity of expression , which betrays them as the author's own . Dante and Milton , 24 [ CHAP . IT . Books and Reading .
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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.