The Choice of BooksAmerican Book Exchange, 1881 - 94 Seiten |
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advantage Agamemnon Alonzo Potter amusement bad books beauty become better Bronson Alcott cation chapter choice of books connexion course cultivation culture duty Edward Everett Hale Emerson English evil feel forget George Eliot give Goethe Greece Greek habit of reading Hamerton Herbert Spencer Herodotus Homer human intel intellectual intelligent kind knowledge labour language librarian literary literature living Lord Lytton matter Matthew Arnold means memory ment mental Milton mind nature never newspaper note-book one's ourselves paper person Petrarch Philip Gilbert Hamerton poems poetry poets President Porter profit public libraries purpose reader reading aloud reading habit remember says selection of books sense Shakespeare skip society soul speak spirit sure taste teacher tell things thought tion tivate true truth volumes whole wise words writer young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 127 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Seite 185 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 164 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Seite 3 - 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...
Seite 210 - Of their sorrows and delights ; Of their passions and their spites ; Of their glory and their shame ; What doth strengthen and what maim. Thus ye teach us, every day, Wisdom, though fled far away. Bards of Passion and of Mirth...
Seite 213 - 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. Many a man lives, a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 25 - For all books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark this distinction — it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the bad book that does not last, and the good one that does. It is a distinction of species. There are good books for the hour, and good ones for all time ; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for all time.
Seite 212 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Seite 213 - ... for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 20 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling ; if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and...