 | William Ellery Channing - 1867 - 842 Seiten
...invaluable means ot communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls...distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual hfe of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Walker - 1867 - 294 Seiten
...men talk to us, communicate their most precious thoughts, and pour out to us their souls. Books are true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the intellectual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. The humblest mechanic, however poor, may... | |
 | 1870 - 1172 Seiten
...are both too fully employed to spend the whole of every evening in conversation. VALUE OF BOOKS.— God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the...the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelcrs. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the... | |
 | 1863 - 358 Seiten
...their touls into ovrs. God be thanked for books. They arc the voices of the distant and the dear), and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past, ages....levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, tlte society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am;... | |
 | 1870 - 956 Seiten
...with us, and give us their most precious thoughts. Books are the voices of the distant and the dead. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society and the presence of the best and the greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter, though... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 Seiten
...of Self-Culture: In the beat books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, end tory, the destruction of the City and the Temple,...subsequent fortunes were delineated in a cunning levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 Seiten
...speaks of books as the powerful means of Self-Culture : In the beet books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls...the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of pa^t ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to .all, who will faithfully use them, the society,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 Seiten
...invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls...the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of bored effectively in promotion of the viz., the " Reign of Henry VII. ;" as British treaty of Union... | |
 | 1875 - 797 Seiten
...his address to young men and working men, which has found an echo in millions of hearts and homes — "they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us the heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. They are the true levelers. They give to all who will... | |
 | 1889 - 744 Seiten
...Nature but man, and nothing great in man but mind. And ' in the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls...They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and they make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all,... | |
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God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. 
