Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 378 pages |
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... the discovery of your country by the white man , will be found the sufficient reason why his majesty , our king , has a right to burn your towns , to shoot down your people , to take possession of your land CHAP . I. ] 3 Introductory .
... the discovery of your country by the white man , will be found the sufficient reason why his majesty , our king , has a right to burn your towns , to shoot down your people , to take possession of your land CHAP . I. ] 3 Introductory .
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... reasons or explore the sources of the instruction and enjoyment which you unconsciously derive from the books in which you most delight . " There is truth and force in this position , we grant . No man can read with profit that which he ...
... reasons or explore the sources of the instruction and enjoyment which you unconsciously derive from the books in which you most delight . " There is truth and force in this position , we grant . No man can read with profit that which he ...
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... God's image , but he who destroys a good book , kills reason itself , kills the image of God as it were in the eye . " The thought will doubtless occur , that this suggestion towards 22 [ CHAP . II . Books and Reading .
... God's image , but he who destroys a good book , kills reason itself , kills the image of God as it were in the eye . " The thought will doubtless occur , that this suggestion towards 22 [ CHAP . II . Books and Reading .
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... reason why reading is so dull to multitudes of active and eager minds is that they have not acquired the habit of at- tending to books . The eye may be fastened upon the page , and the mind may follow the lines , and yet the mind not be ...
... reason why reading is so dull to multitudes of active and eager minds is that they have not acquired the habit of at- tending to books . The eye may be fastened upon the page , and the mind may follow the lines , and yet the mind not be ...
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... reason- ing which his reading will require . He will waken into life that within himself which is higher than his ... reasons are often very good , but they ought not always to satisfy us . Yet the very habit of proposing these questions ...
... reason- ing which his reading will require . He will waken into life that within himself which is higher than his ... reasons are often very good , but they ought not always to satisfy us . Yet the very habit of proposing these questions ...
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Page 376 - 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.
Page 84 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Page 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 23 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 276 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 242 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 75 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
Page 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.