 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1849 - 428 pages
...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...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. Cod be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the... | |
 | Charles Eichhorn - German language - 1850 - 312 pages
...intercourse with1 superior minds, and these invaluable2 means of communication are3 in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their...They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of* the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all,... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...intercourse with superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us — give us...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God he thanked for books. They are the Toiees of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of spiritual... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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...They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable means of communication are in the hands of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into jours. God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 452 pages
...minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books good men talk to us — give us their most precious thoughts,...They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of .the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 844 pages
...minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books good men talk to us — give us their most precious thoughts,...They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1852 - 106 pages
...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...into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the Toices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are... | |
 | George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...practice, as Gibbon observes, was too lucrative to expire with the occasion. ADVANTAGES OF A LIBRARY. IN the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and jmiir their souls into ours. Uod be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the... | |
 | Random readings - 1854 - 204 pages
...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...They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who... | |
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God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. 
