 | 1839 - 648 oldal
...purpose of self-culture, on which I have insisted aa the first of all the means of improvement." As to intercourse with superior minds :— " I have insisted...thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked fr books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 oldal
...we enjoy ii intercourse with superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are within the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give iis their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are... | |
 | 1840 - 210 oldal
...enjoy intereourse with superior minds, and these individual means of eommunieation are in the reaeh of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most preeious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voiees of... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 oldal
...his own, will probably ran one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. 2. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse...invaluable means of communication are in; the reach of all. Jn the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls... | |
 | 1841 - 450 oldal
...an enlightened renovation of Greece.—Willis's Pencillings by the way. ' 3K THE COMPANY OF BOOKS. IT is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give their most precious... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 oldal
...restraints on an article, which does no imaginable good, which can plead no benefit conferred on body and mind, which unfits the citizen for the discharge of...and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 oldal
...the largest bow, but because self-discipline had taught him how to bend it. — D, Webster. BOOKS. 1. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse...and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour... | |
 | Protestant association - 1843 - 480 oldal
...it would be contaminated by coming into ordinary contact with human nature. — Muston. BOOKS. — It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse...and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us — give us their most precious thoughts, and... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 oldal
...companion is, To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers." "In the best books great men talk to us, give us their...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." The influences of life are numberless. Even before man's visible life begins the influences surrounding... | |
 | 1844 - 671 oldal
...writers, in his admirable essay on Self-Culture. " It is chiefly through hooks," says Dr. t '¡tunning, gg that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are now in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us. give us their most precious thoughts,... | |
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. 
