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 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - English language - 1907 - 520 pages
...sailor. " Unless this is done," said he, " I shall not sleep quietly in my grave." VII. COMPARISON The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. You do indeed love these things, so far as you care about art at all. The public character of Milton... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 776 pages
...intellect we should ask him what books he read.— Emerson. The first time I read an excellent work, y saying and doing, from the power of education, ; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. —... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...intellect we should ask him what books he read.— Etna-son. The first time I read an excellent work, ; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. —... | |
 | Children - 1909 - 280 pages
...beginners. The fully illustrated volume is of a handy size to be carried on geological tramps. STORIES The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. GOLDSMITH. ALCOTT, LM Little Men. Illustrated by RB B rch. Little. 2.00 This sequel to Little... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 850 pages
...No sooner born than the poor planter dies. —MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY, 1755, Written at Louvere. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. — GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, 1762, A Citizen of the World,Letter\Jixxiu. A desire of knowledge is the... | |
 | TEMPLE SCOTT - 1911 - 294 pages
...are the formulas which supersede all histories. RW EMERSON Letters and Social Aims: Persian Poetry "T^HE first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Citizen of the World DY reading, we acquaint ourselves with the affairs, actions,... | |
 | Temple Scott - Books and reading - 1911 - 294 pages
...the formulas which supersede all histories. RW EMERSON Letters and Social Aims : Persian Poetry "J^EE first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Citizen of the World DY reading, we acquaint ourselves with the affairs, actions,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1911 - 346 pages
...the book may beguile all experiences and enchant all hours." "The first time," says Goldsmith, "that I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one." " No matter how poor I am," says William Ellery Channing, " no matter though the prosperous of... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1911 - 888 pages
...the book may beguile all experiences and enchant all hours." "The first time," says Goldsmith, "that I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one." " No matter how poor I am," says William Ellery Channing, " no matter though the prosperous of... | |
 | Books - 1907 - 156 pages
...* * Oliver Goldsmith. — There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. John Wesley. — Labour for a temper correspondent to what you read ; otherwise it will prove... | |
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