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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... Law's Serious Call - Walton's Com- plete Angler - Sandys ' Travels - Sprat's History of the Royal Society - England's Gazetteer - Goldsmith's Roman History - some Commentaries on the Bible . " This list seems to include works of three ...
... Law's Serious Call - Walton's Com- plete Angler - Sandys ' Travels - Sprat's History of the Royal Society - England's Gazetteer - Goldsmith's Roman History - some Commentaries on the Bible . " This list seems to include works of three ...
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... laws of duty to mea- sure and regulate our reading , who judges of books as he judges of men , interferes with the ... law of conscience and the rules of duty have nothing to do with the production and enjoy- ment of literature , as many ...
... laws of duty to mea- sure and regulate our reading , who judges of books as he judges of men , interferes with the ... law of conscience and the rules of duty have nothing to do with the production and enjoy- ment of literature , as many ...
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... law and order - will read arguments that tend to the destruction of the family , with its sacred ⚫ confidence and endearments - which would overturn every tribunal , unlock every prison , and make murder and arson as common as a change ...
... law and order - will read arguments that tend to the destruction of the family , with its sacred ⚫ confidence and endearments - which would overturn every tribunal , unlock every prison , and make murder and arson as common as a change ...
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... law concerning scores of words ; as for example , when he defines Dandy thus : " In modern usage , a male of the human species who dresses himself like a doll and who carries his character on his back . " Every history purports to be an ...
... law concerning scores of words ; as for example , when he defines Dandy thus : " In modern usage , a male of the human species who dresses himself like a doll and who carries his character on his back . " Every history purports to be an ...
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... law , to make everything I acquired perfectly my own , and never to go to a second thing till I had entirely accomplished the first . Many of my competitors read as much in a day as I read in a week , but at the end of the twelve months ...
... law , to make everything I acquired perfectly my own , and never to go to a second thing till I had entirely accomplished the first . Many of my competitors read as much in a day as I read in a week , but at the end of the twelve months ...
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Page 86 - 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...
Page 75 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
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.
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 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...
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 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...
Page 378 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. 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 bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 244 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.