In Praise of Books: A Vade Mecum for Book-loversPerkins book Company, 1901 - 117 pages |
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... tastes , for it is a general , though not of course an in- variable , rule , that we profit little by books which we do not enjoy . Every one , however , may suit himself . The variety is endless . Not only does a library contain ...
... tastes , for it is a general , though not of course an in- variable , rule , that we profit little by books which we do not enjoy . Every one , however , may suit himself . The variety is endless . Not only does a library contain ...
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... taste for reading . I speak of it of course only as a wordly advantage , and not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles - but as a taste , an ...
... taste for reading . I speak of it of course only as a wordly advantage , and not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles - but as a taste , an ...
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... taste for reading is , that it often preserves us from bad company . For those are not apt to go or remain with disagreeable people abroad , who are al- ways certain of a pleasant party at home . EDWARD GIBBON , 1737-1794 . The love of ...
... taste for reading is , that it often preserves us from bad company . For those are not apt to go or remain with disagreeable people abroad , who are al- ways certain of a pleasant party at home . EDWARD GIBBON , 1737-1794 . The love of ...
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... taste is rendered so acute , as easily to distinguish the nicest shades of difference . His mind becomes ductile , sus- ceptible to every impression , and gaining new refine- ment from them all . SIR S. EGERTON BRYDGES , 1762-1837 ...
... taste is rendered so acute , as easily to distinguish the nicest shades of difference . His mind becomes ductile , sus- ceptible to every impression , and gaining new refine- ment from them all . SIR S. EGERTON BRYDGES , 1762-1837 ...
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... taste for reading will always carry you into the best possible society , and en- able you to converse with men who will instruct you by their wisdom , and charm you by their wit ; who will soothe you when fretted , refresh you when ...
... taste for reading will always carry you into the best possible society , and en- able you to converse with men who will instruct you by their wisdom , and charm you by their wit ; who will soothe you when fretted , refresh you when ...
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In Praise of Books: A Vade Mecum for Book-Lovers Ralph Waldo Emerson,John Lubbock,Perkins Book Company No preview available - 2023 |
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Page 100 - ... here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time...
Page 75 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the sacred writers will enter and take...
Page 71 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 12 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Page 100 - ... book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again ; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store.
Page 99 - Lecture says, or tries to say, that, life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books ; and that valuable books should, in a civilized country, be within the reach of every one, printed in excellent form, for a just price ; but not in any vile, vulgar, or, by reason of smallness of type, physically injurious form, at a vile price.
Page 99 - Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book ! — a message to us from the dead, — from human souls whom we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away; and yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Page 66 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 43 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 90 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.