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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... illustrate them by examples from books and authors . We would show that the books which we read even carelessly , exert an influence upon us which is far more potent than we are apt to think , and that we ought to select our books ...
... illustrate them by examples from books and authors . We would show that the books which we read even carelessly , exert an influence upon us which is far more potent than we are apt to think , and that we ought to select our books ...
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... illustrate at some length . We wish it to be understood that we do not write for scholars or littérateurs , but for readers of English ; not for bibliographers or bibliomaniacs , to whom literature and reading are a profession , a trade ...
... illustrate at some length . We wish it to be understood that we do not write for scholars or littérateurs , but for readers of English ; not for bibliographers or bibliomaniacs , to whom literature and reading are a profession , a trade ...
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... illustrates the truth which we assert , that if a man would learn to read with interest and atten- tion , he should first of all read much in respect to his call- ing in life . If he is a farmer , he should read books of agriculture ...
... illustrates the truth which we assert , that if a man would learn to read with interest and atten- tion , he should first of all read much in respect to his call- ing in life . If he is a farmer , he should read books of agriculture ...
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... illustrate how great is the va- riety of books and reading matter that are grouped around a single topic and are embraced within a single period . Every person must judge for himself how long a time he can bestow upon any single subject ...
... illustrate how great is the va- riety of books and reading matter that are grouped around a single topic and are embraced within a single period . Every person must judge for himself how long a time he can bestow upon any single subject ...
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... illustrates , is turned to some permanent account and remains as a lasting acquisition . But there are others who read only ... illustrate principles , the utmost pains - taking will do little to help us to retain facts when isolated or ...
... illustrates , is turned to some permanent account and remains as a lasting acquisition . But there are others who read only ... illustrate principles , the utmost pains - taking will do little to help us to retain facts when isolated or ...
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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.