 It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these 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 into ours.  American Annals of Education - Strana 391839Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - Počet stránok 490
...among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal days !" * — Thomai Hood. 2. THE WOKTII OF BOOKS, — It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and tliese invaluatile means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - Počet stránok 206
...thou Romeo ? 7. Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs ? 8. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. 9. The ship being now under sail, the shore began to recede rapidly from our sight. 10. Lord Hastings,... | |
 | 1858 - Počet stránok 878
...they are calculated to confer. • • "It is chiefly through books," observed the late Dr. CnANsixo, "that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...and pour their souls into ours. G-od be thanked for bookt ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1859 - Počet stránok 1284
...blessings they are calculated to confer. "It is chiefly through books," observed the late Dr. CHANGING, ''that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books I They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past... | |
 | Richard Wrench - 1859 - Počet stránok 68
...pendulum beat, the world is an instant older than before.'' On Books being the true levellers: — " In the best books great men talk to us, give us their...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - Počet stránok 812
...imagination, taste, and poetry, to preserve men from sinking into an earthly, material, epicurean life. BOOKS. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most previous thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - Počet stránok 368
...like ships ; they navigate the seas of time, and touch at distant ages. — Bacon. — Throughbooks we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are within the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - Počet stránok 774
...they never fail to make use of it." Talfuunl. BOOKS-Mental Links. It U chiefly through books that wo enjoy intercourse with superior minds ; and these...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thought s, and pour their souls into ours. God bothanV.od for books. They are the voices of tho distant... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - Počet stránok 792
...imagination, taste, and poetry, to preserve men from sinking into on earthly, material, epicurean life. BOOKS. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for hooka I They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - Počet stránok 854
...to his own, will probably run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means ol" communication are in the reach of all. iln the best books, great men talk to us, give us their... | |
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