 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 pàgines
...we enjoy ii intercourse with superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are within the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give iis their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pàgines
...enjoy intereourse with superior minds, and these individual means of eommunieation are in the reaeh of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most preeious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voiees of... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 pàgines
...his own, will probably ran one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. 2. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse...invaluable means of communication are in; the reach of all. Jn the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls... | |
 | 1841 - 450 pàgines
...an enlightened renovation of Greece.—Willis's Pencillings by the way. ' 3K THE COMPANY OF BOOKS. IT is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give their most precious... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 pàgines
...intercourse with superior minds. I have insisted on our own activity as essential to our progress ; but we were not made to live or advance alone. Society is...and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour... | |
 | Protestant association - 1843 - 480 pàgines
...it would be contaminated by coming into ordinary contact with human nature. — Muston. BOOKS. — It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse...and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us — give us their most precious thoughts, and... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pàgines
...the largest bow, but because self-discipline had taught him how to bend it. — D, Webster. BOOKS. 1. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse...and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 pàgines
...companion is, To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers." "In the best books great men talk to us, give us their...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." The influences of life are numberless. Even before man's visible life begins the influences surrounding... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pàgines
...writers, in his admirable essay on Self-Culture. " It is chiefly through hooks," says Dr. t '¡tunning, gg that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are now in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us. give us their most precious thoughts,... | |
 | 1845 - 396 pàgines
...or heaven — the cause of truth and righteousness — the cause ef God, nngels, and men. GBM BOOKS. IT is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse...and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us — give us their most precious thoughts, and... | |
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy 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 most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. 
