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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... follow a forest path . From this volume you can learn the story of that famous white captain who first landed upon your shores , in the days of your great - grandfather , and was there killed and buried ; and mystery above mystery - in ...
... follow a forest path . From this volume you can learn the story of that famous white captain who first landed upon your shores , in the days of your great - grandfather , and was there killed and buried ; and mystery above mystery - in ...
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... follow his fancy ; how far should he thwart and oppose his taste , and seek to form it anew ? Are there any fixed principles of criticism , by which the best books may be known , and a taste for them formed and fixed ? Young ladies ...
... follow his fancy ; how far should he thwart and oppose his taste , and seek to form it anew ? Are there any fixed principles of criticism , by which the best books may be known , and a taste for them formed and fixed ? Young ladies ...
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... follows : " List of Books for a young lady's Library . " " Cann's small Bible ( with marginal references ) ; Horne's ... follow , however , because advice upon any subject is especially liable to degenerate into 12 [ CHAP . I. Books and ...
... follows : " List of Books for a young lady's Library . " " Cann's small Bible ( with marginal references ) ; Horne's ... follow , however , because advice upon any subject is especially liable to degenerate into 12 [ CHAP . I. Books and ...
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... follow them , but he can do something to aid him in discerning what they are , and why , and how far they are to be allowed , or , if need be , re- strained . Inspiration , genius , individual tastes , elective affinities , do not ...
... follow them , but he can do something to aid him in discerning what they are , and why , and how far they are to be allowed , or , if need be , re- strained . Inspiration , genius , individual tastes , elective affinities , do not ...
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... follow the thoughts of the eloquent apostle , who discourses so sublimely of the loftiest themes ; or we listen , in the atti- tude of love or of worship , to the words of Him who spake as never man spake . Or perhaps Barrow pours out ...
... follow the thoughts of the eloquent apostle , who discourses so sublimely of the loftiest themes ; or we listen , in the atti- tude of love or of worship , to the words of Him who spake as never man spake . Or perhaps Barrow pours out ...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Visualização completa - 1881 |
Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Visualização completa - 1871 |
Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Visualização completa - 1881 |
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Página 86 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
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.
Página 83 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Página 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 23 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
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...
Página 22 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
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 378 - 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. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
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.