 | Willard Daniel Johnson - 1901 - 116 Seiten
...himself when the teacher is engaged with other pupils. Such a pupil will be led to exclaim with Channing: "God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead and make us heirs to the spiritual life of past ages. No matter how poor I am, no matter tho' the prosperous of my own... | |
 | 1901 - 460 Seiten
...best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society of the best and greatest of our race, but to make tbis means of culture effectual, a man must select... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell - 1901 - 134 Seiten
...their precious thoughts and pour their souls into ours. Books are the voices of the distant and of the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell - 1901 - 134 Seiten
...their precious thoughts and pour their souls into ours. Books are the voices of the distant and of the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 Seiten
...their souls into ours. — CHANNING. A home without books is like a room without windows. — BEECHER. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 Seiten
...us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books 1 They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and...the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true believers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual prescience, of... | |
 | Nathan Oppenheim - 1902 - 324 Seiten
...out of ourselves, they put us in companionship with the best parts of human nature the world over. " They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages." (The finest help to the formation of good associations is, after all, our own ideals. Our tendency... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 Seiten
...best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of 52 .S7Y/'£vv AXD HOW TO WIX IT the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. The)'... | |
 | 1902 - 102 Seiten
...very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins." — " Walden," by THOREAU, written in 1843. " God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead and make us heirs to the spiritual life of past ages. No matter how poor I am, no matter tho' the prosperous of my own... | |
 | Charles Welsh - 1902 - 104 Seiten
...very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins." — " Walden," by THOREAU, written in 1843. " God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead and make US'heirs to the spiritual life of past ages. No matter how poor I am, no matter tho' the prosperous... | |
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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. 
