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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... written several years ago , and has been often repeated . lecture was originally designed to meet the wants of younger and older persons who might be in a condition to be profited by a few practical sugges- tions , enforced by ...
... written several years ago , and has been often repeated . lecture was originally designed to meet the wants of younger and older persons who might be in a condition to be profited by a few practical sugges- tions , enforced by ...
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... 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 I recommend President Edwards ' writings in general ; Dr. Bellamy's and ...
... 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 I recommend President Edwards ' writings in general ; Dr. Bellamy's and ...
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... written or printed . There prevails not a little cant and hollowness , if not gross imposition and downright dishon- esty , in the use of the phrases " Christian literature , " and " safe or wholesome reading , " as we may have occasion ...
... written or printed . There prevails not a little cant and hollowness , if not gross imposition and downright dishon- esty , in the use of the phrases " Christian literature , " and " safe or wholesome reading , " as we may have occasion ...
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... written by a man , and that it is never by any magic or mystery any better than its author makes it to be . This author may be a wise man or a fool . He may be an honest man or a knave . He may be a man of the best intentions , but ...
... written by a man , and that it is never by any magic or mystery any better than its author makes it to be . This author may be a wise man or a fool . He may be an honest man or a knave . He may be a man of the best intentions , but ...
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... written can be revised . The mind in its calmer mood can qualify and withdraw what it penned in fervid haste . New thoughts may modify its first con- clusions , new energy may be concentered into some sinewy epithet , and new fervor may ...
... written can be revised . The mind in its calmer mood can qualify and withdraw what it penned in fervid haste . New thoughts may modify its first con- clusions , new energy may be concentered into some sinewy epithet , and new fervor may ...
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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.