 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1892 - 782 pages
...whole world of thought and fancy, and imagination? To the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and wittiest, at their wisest and wittiest moment? That...More than that— it annihilates time and space for ns ; it revives for us, without a miracle, the age of wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1905 - 612 pages
...means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination, to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments ? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1886 - 284 pages
...means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and...hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voice8 of all time ? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us ; it revives for us without... | |
 | Annie H. Ryder - 1886 - 200 pages
...means ? That it is the key that admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination, to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to... | |
 | 1887 - 524 pages
...read means? That it is the key that admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination, to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments ? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1888 - 704 pages
...to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at the wisest and wittiest moment. It enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with...ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time. The variety of books is, however, so great, we are told, that the reader is in danger of falling into... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination ? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and...More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. 4632 Lowell : Democracy and Other Addresses. Address, Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 22, 1886. Hooks and Libraries.... | |
 | Frank Parsons, Fred Erastus Crawford, H. T. Richardson - 1889 - 156 pages
...the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments ? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear...ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time ? . . . One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be... | |
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But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination ? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and... 
