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The American Word Book: Graded Lessons in Spelling, Defining, Punctuation ... - Page 182
by Calvin Patterson - 1897 - 192 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 208

1896 - 854 pages
...words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter. . . . Yon might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utter "illiterate," uneducated person; but ... if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,...
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Sesame and lilies. Two lectures

John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 pages
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle : — that you might read all the books in the British Museum...an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy*...
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Pre-Raphaelitism

John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 pages
...(if yon could live long enough), and remain an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person j but that if you read ten pages \ of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy, — yon are for evermore in some measure an educated person. The entire difference between education...
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Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864

John Ruskin - 1867 - 144 pages
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle: —that you might read all the books in the British Museum...an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages -- of a good book, letter by letter,—that is to say, with real accuracy,—you...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: Sesame ...

John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 pages
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real fact : — that you might read all the books in the British Museum...an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good 2 book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy,...
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Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures

John Ruskin - 1871 - 268 pages
...Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,...— that is to say, with real accuracy, — you are forevermore in some measure an educated person. The entire difference between education and noneducation...
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An Analysis of the English Language, Or, The Elements of Sentences in Their ...

Samuel Stillman Greene - 1874 - 336 pages
...words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, "syllable by syllable, — nay," letter by letter. ... If you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,...are for evermore in some measure an educated person. ... A welleducated gentleman may not know many languages — may have read very few books. bBut whatever...
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The Great Slighted Fortune

John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 480 pages
...the words of Montaigne's books], and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive." Ruskin says : " If you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,...for evermore, in some measure, an educated person." In another place, he remarks : "No book is worth anything which is not worth much ; nor is it serviceable,...
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The Great Slighted Fortune

John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 482 pages
...the words of Montaigne's books], and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive." Ruskin says : " If you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,...say, with real accuracy, — you are for evermore, in Borne measure, an educated person." In another place, he remarks : " No book is worth anything which...
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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volume 5

Manchester Literary Club - 1879 - 336 pages
...Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly " illiterate" uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter...are for evermore in some measure an educated person. As an example of real reading, he gives that passage from Milton's Lycidas about " the pilot of the...
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