CONSIDER what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. In Praise of Books - Página 92005 - 144 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1899 - 892 páginas
...of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries in thousands of years have set in best order the results of their...were hid and inaccessible; solitary, impatient of interruptions, fenced by etiquette. But the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friends... | |
| Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 276 páginas
...chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order...learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid, inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they... | |
| Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 252 páginas
...chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order...learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid, inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 286 páginas
...Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand...friend is here written out in transparent words to ns, the strangers of another age. We owe to books those general benefits winch come from high intellectual... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 páginas
...Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand...impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the though c which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words... | |
| Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 256 páginas
...smallest library : a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilised countries in a thousand years have set in best order...inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced in by etiquette : but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written... | |
| Iowa. General Assembly - 1872 - 964 páginas
...in the flesh. " They were often hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced in by etiquette, but the thought which they did not- uncover to their bosom friend, they ПОЛУ reveal to us the strangers of another age. Themselves aroused to the highest energy of... | |
| 1923 - 718 páginas
...smallest chosen library," suggests Emerson, "A company of the wisest and the wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand...years, have set in best order the results of their learnings and wisdom. . . . The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friends is here written... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 páginas
...Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand...were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruptions, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend... | |
| Bret Harte - 1882 - 584 páginas
.../CONSIDER what you have in the smallest chosen Horary. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand...were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruptions, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend... | |
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