| 1845 - 440 páginas
...books great men talk to us — gite us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. > They are the voices of...spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure... | |
| 1845 - 864 páginas
...books great men talk to us — give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure... | |
| 1845 - 396 páginas
...books great men talk to us — give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1846 - 172 páginas
...as fanaticism or imposture could have created such a character and history as that of Jesus Christ. GOD be thanked for books ! They are the voices of...spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling.... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 páginas
...books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. 2. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. 3. No matter how poor I am, no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 páginas
...books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. 2. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence ef the best and greatest of our race. S.^No matter how poo^I am, no matter though the prosperous o£-my... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling.... | |
| 1848 - 398 páginas
...whole into aniron chain of resistless logic. — Prof. Noah Porter, Jr., of Yale College. BOOKS". — God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure... | |
| 1848 - 614 páginas
...books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual pressure of the best and greatest of our race." " At the head of all the pleasures," says Dr. Jobn... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 424 páginas
...dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They sire to all, who will faithfully use them, the society,...spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. So matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling.... | |
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