Handbook for Readers and Students, Intended as a Help to Individuals, Associations, School Districts and Seminaries of Learning, in the Selection of Works for Reading, Investigation, Or Professional StudyHarper & Brothers, 1843 - 330 sidor |
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... present enormous accumulation of books , I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times ; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent , and that one of the chief symptoms is ...
... present enormous accumulation of books , I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times ; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent , and that one of the chief symptoms is ...
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... present state of the world , and especially of our own country , it will not be regarded as untimely or unimportant . Indeed , the want of some such hand- book as the present , combining comprehensiveness and cheapness , is generally ...
... present state of the world , and especially of our own country , it will not be regarded as untimely or unimportant . Indeed , the want of some such hand- book as the present , combining comprehensiveness and cheapness , is generally ...
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Alonzo Potter. PART I. COURSES OF READING AND STUDY . " I here present thee with a hive of bees , laden , some with wax , and some with honey . Fear not to approach ! There are no wasps , there are no hornets here . If some wanton bee ...
Alonzo Potter. PART I. COURSES OF READING AND STUDY . " I here present thee with a hive of bees , laden , some with wax , and some with honey . Fear not to approach ! There are no wasps , there are no hornets here . If some wanton bee ...
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... present itself . The great secret of acquiring knowledge easily and rapidly , is to master the elementary and central truths of any branch so thoroughly that they are always present to the mind , and seem perfectly familiar , though ...
... present itself . The great secret of acquiring knowledge easily and rapidly , is to master the elementary and central truths of any branch so thoroughly that they are always present to the mind , and seem perfectly familiar , though ...
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... present . Reflect on the Roman imperial govern- ment , military and tyrannical , like the Turkish and Rus- sian . " On the study of modern history , " the best and most profitable manner , ' , " his lordship adds , " appears to me to be ...
... present . Reflect on the Roman imperial govern- ment , military and tyrannical , like the Turkish and Rus- sian . " On the study of modern history , " the best and most profitable manner , ' , " his lordship adds , " appears to me to be ...
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Sida 43 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Sida 279 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Sida 16 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Sida 29 - The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the earliest Accounts to the death of Augustus.
Sida 42 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Sida 39 - Government, that learning should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable: we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians, which commonly have a few pleasing receipts whereupon they are confident and adventurous...
Sida 17 - Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection.
Sida 277 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
Sida 199 - The History of Modern Europe : with a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763.
Sida 73 - Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember...