| William Hanby Crump - 1858 - 506 páginas
...thoughts, the innocent mind of youth. How truly spoke the sage of New England, Channing, when he snid : " God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the...make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. " The Gifts presented to Purchasers. But the very spirit of the system adopted by Evans, consists in... | |
| 1858 - 878 páginas
...intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...and pour their souls into ours. G-od be thanked for bookt ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 páginas
...imagination, taste and poetry, to preserve men from sinking into an earthly, material, epicurean life. BOOES. the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past apes. Books are the true levellers. They gire to all who will faithfully ase them, the society, the... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 páginas
...intercourse with superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and... | |
| James Everett - 1859 - 392 páginas
...the society of superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the greatest... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1859 - 164 páginas
...as fanaticism or imposture could have created such a character and history as that of Jesus Christ. GOD be thanked for books ! They are the voices of...life of past ages. .Books are the 'true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and... | |
| Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 páginas
...intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books I They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past... | |
| Richard Wrench - 1859 - 68 páginas
...pendulum beat, the world is an instant older than before.'' On Books being the true levellers: — " In the best books great men talk to us, give us their...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 páginas
...imagination, taste, and poetry, to preserve men from sinking into an earthly, material, epicurean life. BOOKS. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most previous thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are within the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their...spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and... | |
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