 | Joseph A. Graves - 1900
...most 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... | |
 | Joseph A. Graves - 1890 - 154 Seiten
...most 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... | |
 | 1913
...is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle." G-od be thanked for books. They are the voices of...the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the sipritual presence, of the... | |
 | Richard D. Jones - 1891 - 134 Seiten
...receive and marble to retain" we might have stored his mind with the wisdom of the race preserved in books. "God be thanked for books. They are the voices...dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past days." "The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards. * * Fortunate if the... | |
 | James Louis O'Neil - 1893 - 135 Seiten
...to India. The treasures of the world and of all time are at our doors. " God be thanked, therefore, for books. They are the voices of the distant and...ages. Books are the true levellers ; they give to us who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our... | |
 | 1893
...these silent and powerful factors of civilization is admirably expressed by Channing when he wrote : "God be thanked for books. They are the voices of...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... | |
 | Gabriel Compayré - 1894 - 598 Seiten
...particularly of Siciliani, and the original and eminently suggestive studies of Bernard Perez. into ours. /God be thanked for books. ' They are the voices of...life of past ages. / Books are the true levellers. I They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - 1893
...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...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... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 579 Seiten
...than more ; — book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned. — Alcott. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. — Channing. The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 3140 Seiten
...with us, i.-.l give us their most precious thoughts. Books are the voice* 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 greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter, though... | |
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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. 
