In Praise of Books: A Vade Mecum for Book-loversPerkins book Company, 1901 - 117 páginas |
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... opinion has some value ; if you do not know these , you are not entitled to give any opinion on the subject . Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals 8 IN PRAISE OF BOOKS .
... opinion has some value ; if you do not know these , you are not entitled to give any opinion on the subject . Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals 8 IN PRAISE OF BOOKS .
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... sits and weighs , and ten years hence out of a million of pages reprints one . Again it is judged , it is winnowed by all the winds of opinion , and what terrific selection has not passed on it , before it IN PRAISE OF BOOKS . 11.
... sits and weighs , and ten years hence out of a million of pages reprints one . Again it is judged , it is winnowed by all the winds of opinion , and what terrific selection has not passed on it , before it IN PRAISE OF BOOKS . 11.
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... opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions , which make it as accessible as a newspaper . But Plutarch's " Morals " is less known , and seldom reprinted . Yet such a reader as I am writing to can as ill spare it ...
... opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions , which make it as accessible as a newspaper . But Plutarch's " Morals " is less known , and seldom reprinted . Yet such a reader as I am writing to can as ill spare it ...
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... the gossiping record of his opinions in his conversa- tions with Drummond of Hawthornden , has really il- lustrated the England of his time , if not to the same extent , yet much in the same way , as 20 IN PRAISE OF BOOKS .
... the gossiping record of his opinions in his conversa- tions with Drummond of Hawthornden , has really il- lustrated the England of his time , if not to the same extent , yet much in the same way , as 20 IN PRAISE OF BOOKS .
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... opinions , histories , with a certain freedom , and distribute things , not after the usages of America and Europe , but after the laws of right reason , and with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams , put us on our feet again ...
... opinions , histories , with a certain freedom , and distribute things , not after the usages of America and Europe , but after the laws of right reason , and with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams , put us on our feet again ...
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Analects of Confucius Aristophanes Aristotle authors Bacon beautiful bring century charming cheerful comfort Confucius dæmons Dante delight Demosthenes doubt Earl Spencer EMERSON English enjoy enjoyment entertainment Essays eyes famed books Fathers feel friends genius give greatest Greek happiness heart Homer Horace human hundred imagination important inestimable interesting John Herschel JOHN LYLYE Johnson knowledge learning literature living Lord lover of books LUBBOCK Macaulay master Milton mind modern Molière Montaigne Nature never novel opinion orators perhaps Phædo philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poem poetry poets readers rich RICHARD DE BURY Ruskin says scholar Scott selection sentiment Shakespeare Sir John SIR JOHN LUBBOCK society Socrates solitude soul spirits Synesius taste things Thomas à Kempis thought thousand tion translations Vishnu Sarma weary well-furnished library wisdom wise wisest writing Younger Edda
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 66 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 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.
Página 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.