Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 394 páginas |
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... BOOKS AND READING ; AND NONE THE LESS WISELY AND EFFICIENTLY , TO THE MANY GOOD OBJECTS WHICH HAVE ENLISTED HER WOMANLY SYMPATHIES AND HER SAGACIOUS BENEVOLENCE . PREFACE . THE papers contained in this volume have grown.
... BOOKS AND READING ; AND NONE THE LESS WISELY AND EFFICIENTLY , TO THE MANY GOOD OBJECTS WHICH HAVE ENLISTED HER WOMANLY SYMPATHIES AND HER SAGACIOUS BENEVOLENCE . PREFACE . THE papers contained in this volume have grown.
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... from authors who might be sup- posed to be familiar to the reader . The wants of those beginning to read have been especially con- sidered , while those who are more or less fami- liar with books and practised in reading have not been V.
... from authors who might be sup- posed to be familiar to the reader . The wants of those beginning to read have been especially con- sidered , while those who are more or less fami- liar with books and practised in reading have not been V.
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... less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it is also true that bad books and inferior books are far more common than they once were . Their poison is also more subtle and ...
... less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it is also true that bad books and inferior books are far more common than they once were . Their poison is also more subtle and ...
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... less evil upon their children . What books shall they buy and how shall they judge of books ? Above all , how shall they train themselves and others to the best use of the books which they possess and read ? We would in these papers ...
... less evil upon their children . What books shall they buy and how shall they judge of books ? Above all , how shall they train themselves and others to the best use of the books which they possess and read ? We would in these papers ...
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... less light upon the culture and knowledge which prevailed when they were written . A very distinguished clergyman of New England , furnishes the following list of books for a young pastor in 1792. " In Divinity , you will not wonder if ...
... less light upon the culture and knowledge which prevailed when they were written . A very distinguished clergyman of New England , furnishes the following list of books for a young pastor in 1792. " In Divinity , you will not wonder if ...
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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 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 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 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 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 51 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
Página 52 - Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) 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.
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 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. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
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 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 - 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 bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.