| 1896 - 854 páginas
...words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter. . . . Yon might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utter "illiterate," uneducated person; but ... if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 páginas
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle : — that you might read all the books in the British Museum...that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy* •— you are for evermore in some measure an educated... | |
| John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 páginas
...British Museum (if yon could live long enough), and remain an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person j but that if you read ten pages \ of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy, — yon are for evermore in some measure an educated... | |
| John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 páginas
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real fact : — that you might read all the books in the British Museum...person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good 2 book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy, — you are for evermore in some... | |
| John Ruskin - 1872 - 144 páginas
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle: —that you might read all the books in the British Museum...uneducated person; but that if you read ten pages of a good bouk, letter by letter,—that is to say, with real accuracy,—you are for evermore in some measure... | |
| William Edward Armytage Axon - 1879 - 32 páginas
...On books there are many pregnant sentences, as this one which goes to the root of the matter : — You might read all the books in the British Museum...that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter — that is to say with real accuracy — you are for evermore in some measure an educated person... | |
| 1904 - 692 páginas
...intensely at words, and securing yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable, nay, letter by letter. You might read all the books in the British Museum...remain an utterly illiterate, uneducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, that is, with real accuracy, you are forever... | |
| John Ruskin - 1882 - 224 páginas
...of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle : • — that you might read all the books in the British Museum...that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with rea! accuracy, — you are for evermore in some measure an educated... | |
| Granville series - 1882 - 330 páginas
...intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable ; nay, letter by letter. You might read all the books in the British Museum,...remain an utterly "illiterate," uneducated person ; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter — that is to say, with real care — you are... | |
| Edmund J. Baillie - 1882 - 76 páginas
...at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable— nay, letter by letter .... You might read • all the* books in the British Museum...an utterly ' illiterate,' uneducated person ; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter — that is to say with real accuracy — you... | |
| |