 | Book-lover - 1883 - 262 oldal
...authentie. ... On all sides, are wa not driven to the eonelusion that, of the things whieh man ean do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things wo eall Books ! Those poor bits of rag -paper with blaek ink on them; — frem the Daily Newspaper... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 oldal
...touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar. Perhaps there is no worship more authentic. . . . On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion...BOOK, what have they not done, what are they not doing ! — For indeed, whatever be the outward form of the thing (bits of paper, as we say, and black ink),... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 oldal
...touched our hearts as with a live coa\from the altar. Perhaps there is no worship more authentic. . . . On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion...BOOK, what have they not done, what are they not doing ! — For indeed, whatever be the outward form of the thing (bits of paper, as we say, and black ink),... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 494 oldal
...unencumbered, visible to all. Democracy virtually extant will insist on becoming palpably extant. — On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion...BOOK, what have they not done, what are they not doing ! — For indeed, whatever be the outward form of the thing (bits of paper, as we say, and black ink),... | |
 | 1884 - 532 oldal
...touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar. Perhaps there is no worship more authentic. . . . On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion...wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books 1 Those poor bits of ragpaper with black ink on them ; — from the Daily Newspaper to the sacred Hebrew... | |
 | Frederick Morgan Cruden - 1884 - 32 oldal
...vesture of a thought." " On all sides," says Carlyle, " are we i not driven to the conclusion that by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call books ! " Says Anthony Trollope (and I quote him rather than others because of his known practical character)... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 490 oldal
...unencumbered, visible to all. Democracy virtually extant will insist on becoming palpably extant. — On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion...BOOK, what have they not done, what are they not doing ! — For indeed, whatever be the outward form of the thing (bits of paper, as we say, and black ink),... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 oldal
...his word and example. — FA Krummaciier. BOOKS. 1. The most wonderful of human worin. (655.) Of all things which man can do or make here below, by far...wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. —Carlylt. 2. Are llvlr.g1 powers. (656.) Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 oldal
...preserve as in a vial, the purest efficacy of that living intellect which bred them. Carlyle said — Of the things which man can do or make here below,...wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. To conclude with two lines of Sir John Denham, the Royalist poet — Books should to one of these four... | |
 | Melvil Dewey - 1893 - 522 oldal
...bosom frend is here writn out to us, the strangers of another age." And his friend Carlyle adds : " Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy, ar the things we call books." OUR TWO-SIDED TRIANGLE. Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam... | |
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On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion that, of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books... 
