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" Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason ; — they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works therefore are 'the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. For... "
The Youth's Magazine; Or, Evangelical Miscellany - Page 31
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Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the ...

Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...master spirit, Embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.—John Milton. 457. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason;—they made no such demand on those who wrote them. Those works therefore are the most valuable,...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

1856 - 570 pages
...thirty years of age, will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them. iSOflfeu — Cotton. Books require no thought from those who read them,...without such a stimulus, would neither have struck root downward, nor borne fruit upward, so it is with the light that is intellectual ; it calls forth and...
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The Western Literary Magazine, and Journal of Education, Science, Arts, and ...

George Brewster - 1858 - 464 pages
...pastime becomes too painful — we will not pursue it. MKRCER Co., WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, Nov. 1850. MANY books require no thought from those who read them,...a very simple reason — they made no such demand on those who wrote them. Those works therefore are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties...
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Diamond Dust

Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 pages
...and malice ; words sometimes slip from the tongue which the heart neither hatched nor harboured. MANY books require no thought from those who read them,...they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. HE who visits the sick in hope of a legacy, let him be never so friendly in all other cases, is no...
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Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Charles Caleb Colton - 1866 - 380 pages
...individual who, on some particular occasion, was greater than he whose: life you are reading. MANY books require no thought from those who read them,...very simple reason ; — they made no such demand npon those who wrote them. Those works therefore are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties...
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Aphorisms, maxims, &c., for learners, selected and arranged by R. Potts

Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 pages
...master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — John Milton. 500. Many books require no thought from those who read them,...very simple reason ; — they made no such demand on those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable that set our thinking faculties...
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A Homiletic Encyclopaedia of Illustrations in Theology and Morals. ...

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 pages
...and, if possible, ignored, by all sane creatures 1 —Carlylt. 9. The test of a good book. (671.) Many books require no thought from those who read them,...very simple reason ; — they made no such demand on those who wrote them. Those works therefore are the most valuable that set our thinking faculties...
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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors ...

1891 - 556 pages
...their instruction. Jomon. THE MOST VALUABLE. Many books require no thought from those who read them, for a very simple reason; — they made no such demand...set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. Cotton. TITLES OF. There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...literature in the age in which one lives; bat I would rather read too few than too many. Lord Dudley. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a simple reason, — they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. — Cotton. Books, to judicious...
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In Praise of Books: A Vade Mecum for Book-lovers

1901 - 140 pages
...the most home-felt, the most heart-felt of all our enjoyments ! CHARLES C. COLTON, 1780-1832. Many books require no thought from those who read them,...set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. DR. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANGING, 1780-1842. No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of...
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