 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Brewster - 1858 - 464 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1866 - 380 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1891 - 556 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1901 - 140 Seiten
...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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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... 
