The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company... Seeing and Hearing - Page 276de George William Erskine Russell - 1907 - 395 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1905 - 880 pages
...admirable in conduct. " II avait un sens penetrant pour tout chose d 'experience et de ve'rite'. " "The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through the time [he writes], but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live;... | |
| 1895 - 540 pages
...back to America, it will be to see more of the South." too short of what I proposed, and this vear things have been a good deal better. The importance...quite keen enough or too keen about doing that, yet thev will not do it in the simplest and most innocent manner by reading. However, if I live to be eighty... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 464 pages
...accomplished more than usual in the way of reading the books which at the beginning of the year I had put down to be read. I always do this, and I do not...every year I live; it is living in good company, the 1 " Westminster Abbey" (an elegy on Dean Stanley), Nineteenth Century, January 1882. 2 That the abbey... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 466 pages
...accomplished more than usual in the way of reading the books which at the beginning of the year I had put down to be read. I always do this, and I do not...every year I live; it is living in good company, the 1 " Westminster Abbey" (au elegy on Dean Stanley), Nineteenth Century, January 1882. 2 That the abbey... | |
| 1896 - 564 pages
...expect to read all I put down, but sometimes I fall much too short of what I proposed, and this vear things have been a good deal better. The importance...written, forces itself upon me more and more every vear I live ; it is living in good company, the best company, and people are generally quite keen enough... | |
| Edward Judson - 1899 - 224 pages
...Matthew Arnold writes as follows to his sister: The importance of reading, not light stuff to get through time, but the best that has been written, forces itself...living in good company, the best company, and people generally are quite keen enough, or too keen about doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 160 pages
...accomplished more than usual in the way of reading the books which at the beginning of the year I had put down to be read. I always do this, and I do not...that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and best manner by reading. However, if I live to be „ eighty I shall probably be the only person left... | |
| 1903 - 60 pages
...is the business of Criticism to know and make known the best that is known and thought in the world. The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get...that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and best manner, by reading. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Sure, He that made uiwith such large discourse, Looking before... | |
| William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 470 pages
...intellectual discipline. In a letter written January i, 1882, six^ years before his death, he says: "The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get...company, and people are generally quite keen enough, or too-keen, about doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and most innocent •' manner by... | |
| John Kells Ingram - 1904 - 192 pages
...time. The young Positivist, naturally an ardent reformer, should beware of * Matthew Arnold well said: "The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get...company, the best company, and people are generally keen enough, or too keen, about doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and best manner... | |
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