 CONSIDER what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.  London Society - Page 15edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Louise Arnold - 1899 - 296 pages
...years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hidden and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought that they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the... | |
 | William Francis Rocheleau - 1920 - 232 pages
...and an efficient comforter." "Consider," says Emerson, "what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could...best order the results of their learning and wisdom." Masterpieces in Art William C. Casey A Manual for teachers and students. Cloth. 258 pages. Illustrated.... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1900 - 424 pages
...chosen library; a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order...inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquet; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here writen out to us,... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1900 - 414 pages
...liberally administered." Emerson once said : " Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library ; a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 pages
...one of the necessaries of life. —BEECHEB. Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could...all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set it best order the results of their learning and wisdom. — EMERSON. What is a great love of books... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1902 - 282 pages
...has composed the most "S expressive words : " Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.... | |
 | 1904 - 112 pages
...DELAWARE. Consider what you have in the smallest well chosen library. A company of the wisest, wittiest men picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years,...best order the results of their learning and wisdom. EMERSON. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES. The initiative in all library movements must come from individuals... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pages
...is a collection of books. — Ctr>:Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A err pany of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of • civilized countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order results of their learning and... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...to wander at random over many. — Seiitta. Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. — Rousseau. Little, indeed, does 㺉 y P ձ ΧŁ ont of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ellis - 1912 - 308 pages
...library brings to young dwellers in remote and lonely Welsh glens. " A company," as Emerson says, " of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked...all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set down in best order the results of their learning and wisdom." Take again our social obligations towards... | |
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