 | Orison Swett Marden - 1911 - 346 oldal
...reading. " Of the things which man can do or make here below," it was said by the Sage of Chelsea, " by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are...what have they not done, what are they not doing?" President Schurmann of Cornell points with pride to a few books in his library which he says he bought... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1911 - 888 oldal
...reading. " Of the things which man can do or make here below," it was said by the sage of Chelsea, " by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy,...what have they not done, what are they not doing? " President Schurmann of Cornell, points with pride to a few books in his library which he says he... | |
 | 1907 - 156 oldal
...as if he had never known them, with their sad earnestness and vivid exactness. Thomas Carlyle. — On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion...wonderful, and worthy are the things we call Books ? These poor bits of rag paper with black ink on them —from the Daily Newspaper to the sacred Hebrew... | |
 | Hugh Walker, Janie Roxburgh Walker - 1913 - 1116 oldal
...things, and have hands and feet." Everything in existence is the embodiment of thought; and "of all the things which man can do or make here below, by...wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books," because a book "is the purest embodiment the thought of man can have*." One of the numerous points... | |
 | Fitzwilliam (N.H.) - 1913 - 58 oldal
...the most miraculous of all things which man has devised. Of all things which men can do, or make hare below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy, are the things we call books. " The donor of these premises intends that they shall be used by the present generation and by those... | |
 | Arthur Elmore Bostwick - 1914 - 344 oldal
...their 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1916 - 512 oldal
...the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy rre the things we call Books ! Those poor bits of rag-paper...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 - 1916 - 510 oldal
...unencumbered, visible to all. Democracy virtually extant will insist on becoming palpably extant. — On all sides, are we not driven to the co'nclusion...below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy rre the things we call Books ! Those poor bits of rag-paper with black ink on them ; — from the Daily... | |
 | North Carolina Library Commission - 1917 - 498 oldal
...visits to the libraries, and large cultural returns from a visit to your beautiful National Capital." Of the things which man can do or make here below,...wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. — Carlyle. Few of us make the most of our minds. The body ceases to grow in a few years; but the... | |
 | 1918 - 576 oldal
...involved in Cimmerian darkness. He might well have inserted, and the house empty! Carlyle, too, thought that of the things which man can do or make here below,...wonderful and worthy are the things we call books. Is it any wonder, then, that everything connected with the book and its history has an interest that... | |
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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... 
