 | 1886 - 228 pages
...of the best judges, either as to books or methods. Thus Mr. Lowell has advised that young students should confine themselves to the supreme books in...and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Against this we may place Longfellow's plea for the minor poet : Come, read to me some poem, Some simple... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...eye looks farthest into heaven, On gleams of star and depths of blue The glaring sunshine never knew. ONE is sometimes asked by young people to recommend...they should confine themselves to the supreme books Jn whatever literature, or still better, to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly... | |
 | Frank Parsons, Fred Erastus Crawford, H. T. Richardson - 1889 - 156 pages
...the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time ? . . . One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend...and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him." Luther. " To read many books produceth confusion, rather than learning, like as those who dwell everywhere... | |
 | American Library Association, American Library Association. Conference - 1889 - 518 pages
...is." My own testimony would be for few books, but those of the best, and my advice to young people " that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature." The workers in this 'field must take comfort in the thought that " every good habit corrects some wrong... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 338 pages
...that the ability to read makes us all shareholders in the Bonanza Mine of Universal Intelligence ! One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend...thoroughly familiar with him. For, as all roads lead to Kome, so do they likewise lead away from it, and you will find that, in order to understand perfectly... | |
 | 1891 - 104 pages
...who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good...thoroughly familiar with him. For, as all roads lead to clustering in families, connecting and intertwining themselves with all that men have been doing and... | |
 | 1891 - 508 pages
...that the ability to read makes us all shareholders in the Bonanza Mine of Universal Intelligence ! One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend...advice would be that they should confine themselves te the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 508 pages
...told that the ability to read makes us all shareholders in the Bonanza Mine of Universal Intelligence! One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend...course of reading. My advice would be that they should oonfine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 330 pages
...that the ability to read makes us all shareholders in the Bonanza Mine of Universal Intelligence ! One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend...literature, or still better to choose some one great anthor, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. For, as all roads lead to Rome, so do they... | |
 | Augusta Harriet Leypoldt, George Iles - 1895 - 184 pages
...ANO TILO »I FOUNDATIONS. R «м . L BY TiiE':ÍM¿n¿Í;i WfrARY ASSOCIATION OF Of NEW YORK, "/ aw sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course...to the supreme books in •whatever literature, or better still, to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. For,... | |
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One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly... 
