 | William Ellery Channing - 1838 - 90 pages
...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...called the best society in the place where I live. • To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good books, such as have been written... | |
 | 708 pages
...their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakspere to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings...though excluded from what is called the best society in^the place where I live. To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good books, such... | |
 | 1839 - 684 pages
...presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperou* of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling...called the best society in the place where I live. " To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good books, such as have been written... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...enter my obscure dwelling ; if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof—if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise;...called the best society in the place where I live." Of newspapers:— " They are the literature of multitudes. Unhappily their importance is not understood... | |
 | 1839 - 598 pages
...threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakspeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the working of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with...called the best society in the place where I live." p. 40. MISCELLANY. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. The number of students in the University, is S9G; in the Divinity... | |
 | 1839 - 636 pages
...threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakspeare to open to me the worlds uf imagination and the working of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with...called the best society in the place where I live." p. 40. MISCELLANY. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. The number of students in the University, is 39C; in the Divinity... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 pages
...the worlds of imagination, and the workings of the human heart ; and Franklin to enrich me with hi* practical wisdom — I shall not pine for want of...cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the beat society in the place where 1 live. ****** At a small expense, a man can now posses« himself of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 424 pages
...the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They j give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society,...called the best society in the place where I live. To make this means of culture effectual, a man must . select good books, such as have been written... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 424 pages
...their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakj^peare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings...called the best society in the place where I live. To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good- books, such as have been written by... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 pages
...and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom,...called the best society in the place where I live. 4. To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good books, such as have been written... | |
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No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the Sacred Writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakspeare... 
