...would'st not be Content to know, — what was too much for thee. HENRY VAUGHAN Silex Scintittans '"PHE reading of books, what is it but conversing with -*•...couched in good expression, and digested in exact method ? ISAAC BARROW Sermons: "Of Industry in our Particular Catting as Scholars." The difference between...

...continents would not compensate for the good they impart. * * * Barrow . — The reading of books is conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all...deliberate thoughts, choicest notions and best inventions. * * * John Morley. — The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should...

...intercourse with great minds. ' The reading of books,' said an older author than the one I have just cited, ' what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all...couched in good expression, and digested in exact method ?' 2 These words also deserve general currency. To come into touch with the ' most deliberate thoughts,...

...one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself: as in all weathers, so in all fortunes, the reading of books, what is it but conversing with...couched in good expression, and digested in exact method * ?" * Barrow. CONCLUSION. Perhaps the opinion was founded on the notion which many entertain, that...

...one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes. The reading of books, what is it but conversing with...couched in good expression, and digested in exact method ? BOBEBT SOUTH, 1633-1716. The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning far surpasseth all other...

...any man's children so much please him. as these crea- SERM. . „,. , . , XLVII. tures oI his brain? The reading of books, what is it but conversing with...in good expression, and digested in exact method? And as to the particular matters or objects of study, all have their use and pleasure. I shall only...