 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 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...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 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...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... | |
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...slipped his bridle, ran away, and took us up more than an hour to recover him again. Swift. BOOKS. TN 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1867 - 842 pages
...intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means ot communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual hfe of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1868 - 382 pages
...SENTENCE consists of two or more simple sentences ; as, " The war is over and peace has come ; " " In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." § 345. The simple sentences that make up a compound sentence, may be joined, — 1. By a conjunction... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1867 - 380 pages
...of two ^r more simple sentences ; as, " The war is over and peace has come ; " " In the best hooks, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." § 345. The simple sentences that make up a compound sentence, may be joined, — 1. By a conjunction... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1869 - 608 pages
...in the refulgence of intellectual and moral excellence ? " In the best books," said a great man, " great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." Again we say, get and read good books. Let your spirits, looking out, trace their precious lines, and... | |
 | 1870 - 1172 pages
...are both too fully employed to spend the whole of every evening in conversation. VALUE OF BOOKS.— God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the...the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelcrs. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1870 - 232 pages
...COMPOUND SENTENCE consists of two or more simple sentences ; as, " The war is over and peace has come ;" "In the best books, great men talk to us, give us...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." § 236. The simple sentences that make up a compound sentence may be joined,— 1. By a conjunction;... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1870 - 380 pages
...SENTENCE consists of two or more simple sentences ; as, " The war is over and peace has come ; " " In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their...precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." § 345. The simple sentences that make up a compound sentence, may be joined, — 1. By a conjunction... | |
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God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. 
