...part of the subject in a few well-chosen lines in his Essay on Books : "I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best...book is translatable — any real insight or broad humane sentiment. Nay, I observe that in our Bible and other books of lofty moral tone it seems easy...

...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe, that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable...

...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable...

...practical direction. " Thou that teachest others " (what and how to read) " teachest thou not thyself?" " What is really best in any book is translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable...

...significance, their value is incontestable. Perhaps one may not go quite so far as Emerson in saying that " What is really best in any book is translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment," remembering Emerson's other saying, " I confide in your scholarly character that you spurn translations...

...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable...

...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable...

...content above style, and shows"ho\\TTnsensible he could be to the true significance of literary form: " What is really best in any book is translatable, any real insight or broad human sentiment. ... I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which...

...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable...

...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable...