 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 páginas
...— ADDISON. God be thanked for books. They are the voire« of the distant and the dead, and make ue heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are...true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully uso them the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our глее. No matter how... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 páginas
...and allays the passions, and find* employment for moat of the vacant boon of life.— ADDISON. (jod be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and nmke us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Bookut are the true leveller*. They give to all who... | |
 | 1893 - 376 páginas
...of man has found light and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is deepest in him. God be thanked for books ; they are the voices of...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. In the best books men talk to us and give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into... | |
 | William Henry Withrow - 1885 - 186 páginas
...sentenced to seven years in a penitentiary. CHAPTER XXIV. ABOUT BOOKS. " God be thanked for books I They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."— CHANNING, On Self-Culture. " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1888 - 572 páginas
...us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. Uod be thanked for books I They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and...spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. No matter how poor I am; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling;... | |
 | 1888 - 252 páginas
...great thinker — it is a ship of thought, deepfreighted with truth and with beauty. Theodore Parker. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Clianning. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring... | |
 | 1888 - 496 páginas
...us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books I They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Be not Dogmatic. LET well-weighed considerations, not stiff and peremptory assumptions, guide thy discourses,... | |
 | 1889 - 934 páginas
...and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him. e. CABLYLE — Essays. Corn-Law Rhymes. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual lifo of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who v ill faithfully use them, the... | |
 | 1895 - 642 páginas
...very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins." — "Walden," by Thoreau, written in 1843. " God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead and make us heirs to the spiritual life of past ages. No matter how poor I am, no matter tho' the prosperous of my own... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 352 páginas
...their most ' precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. (3) God be thanked ' lor books. (4) They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. (5) Books are the true ' levellers. (6) They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society,... | |
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God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. 
