| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1852 - 106 páginas
...most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the Toices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs 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.... | |
| 1852 - 844 páginas
...books good 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 life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the... | |
| 1852 - 452 páginas
...books good 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 life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the... | |
| George Willis - 1853 - 322 páginas
...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...spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. No matter how poor I am : no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...extensive, accurate, and useful. — Wirt. READING. — Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. — Channing. READING AND THINKING. — You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the... | |
| Elisha Reynolds Potter - 1854 - 354 páginas
...Applications may be made to the Principal or to the subscriber, JOEL MANN, Secretary of the Board. BOOKS. 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.... | |
| 1854 - 406 páginas
...million of dollars. 10. It has made two hundred thousand widows, and one million orphan chidren. 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... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 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.... | |
| Random readings - 1854 - 204 páginas
...best 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.—Channing. O Books, ye monuments of mind, concrete wisdom of the wisest; Sweet solaces of daily... | |
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