...read many, he will read advantageously. ... The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer are : 1. Never read any book that is not a year old....phrase, ' No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.' " How few of us live up to the last of these three rules...

...Emerson's well-known rules in his talk on Books are worth many a long dissertation upon the subject. 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2....read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what 3-011 like. But in reference to this last rule, may arise the question, what shall be done if we do...

...authors — But who dare speak of such a thing ? The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, — 1. Never read any book that is not a year...books. 3. Never read any but what you like; or, in Shakespeare's phrase, " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most...

...street when the mines of California are open! As to what to read, Emerson's rules are: 1. Never read a book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like. I accept the first two more readily than the third. That may do for one after his tastes are formed....

...already within the four walls of my study at home. . . . "The three practical rules which I have to offer are, 1. Never read any book that is not a year old....books. 3. Never read any but what you like, or, in Shakespeare's phrase, — " ' No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en ; In brief, sir, study what...

...already within the four walls of my study at home. . . . "The three practical rules which I have to offer are, 1. Never read any book that is not a year old....books. 3. Never read any but what you like, or, in Shakespeare's phrase, — " ' No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en ; In brief, sir, study what...

...already within the four walla of my study at home. . . . "The three practical rules which I have to offer are, 1. Never read any book that is not a year old....books. 3. Never read any but what you like, or, in Shakespeare's phrase, — "' No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en ; In brief, sir, study what...

...already within the four walls of my study at home. . . . "The three practical rules which I have to offer are, 1. Never read any book that is not a year old....books. 3. Never read any but what you like, or, in Shakespeare's phrase, — Emerson has a good deal to say about conversation in his essay on Clubs,...

...you have read preceding writers. Perhaps you remember Emerson's three rules for choosing books : "i. Never read any book that is not a year old ; 2. Never...famed books; 3. Never read any but what you like." These are golden rules. Let us consider them a moment. If you wait till the brand-new book is a year...

...rules, which I have had occasion to criticise in another place, seem to be of the former class. They are : 1. Never read any book that is not a year old....Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any books but what you like. They are suggestions " How not to do it," of course ; cautions rather than...