Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 378 Seiten |
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... faith in goodness and our trust in God , may be quite as useful as the treatise which enforces some new principle in finance , the history which clears up some disputed ques- tion of fact , or the argument which sets forever at rest ...
... faith in goodness and our trust in God , may be quite as useful as the treatise which enforces some new principle in finance , the history which clears up some disputed ques- tion of fact , or the argument which sets forever at rest ...
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... faith , to enlarge their knowledge and to elevate and kindle their aspirations . Mrs. Brown- ing has said , and doubtless from her own experience , " We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book And calculating profits , so much ...
... faith , to enlarge their knowledge and to elevate and kindle their aspirations . Mrs. Brown- ing has said , and doubtless from her own experience , " We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book And calculating profits , so much ...
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... faith in the nobleness of man and the goodness of God . Notable examples of influences of this kind are furnished in the celebrated histories of Gibbon and of Hume . Gib- bon has left behind him one of the most splendid monu- ments of ...
... faith in the nobleness of man and the goodness of God . Notable examples of influences of this kind are furnished in the celebrated histories of Gibbon and of Hume . Gib- bon has left behind him one of the most splendid monu- ments of ...
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... Faith , so that he had been fired and elevated at the thought of the won- drous movements of this unseen empire - had he but con- ceived somewhat of the plan of God's providence in first subduing the world to the sway of one iron ...
... Faith , so that he had been fired and elevated at the thought of the won- drous movements of this unseen empire - had he but con- ceived somewhat of the plan of God's providence in first subduing the world to the sway of one iron ...
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... faith does he awaken in the noble and the heroic in character ? What feelings does he excite in his readers towards the dead whom they ought to revere and the living who would emulate their ex- ample ? To these questions we are ...
... faith does he awaken in the noble and the heroic in character ? What feelings does he excite in his readers towards the dead whom they ought to revere and the living who would emulate their ex- ample ? To these questions we are ...
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Seite 86 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Seite 75 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Seite 83 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Seite 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 23 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Seite 86 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Seite 22 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 83 - So spake the cherub, and his grave rebuke Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pined His loss; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed 850 Undaunted. If I must contend...
Seite 378 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Seite 244 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.