| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...perusal: the great majority are as perfectly plain as perfect triteness can make them. Yet, if time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated...meditation, that he knew what he had written, and had imbodied in it, more or less, the creations of a deep and noble soul, — should we not draw near to... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...perusal: the great majority are as perfectly plain as perfect triteness can make them. Yet, if time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated...meditation, that he knew what he had written, and had imbodied in it, more or less, the creations of a deep and noble soul, — should we not draw near to... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...perusal : the great majority are as perfectly plain as perfect triteness can make them. Yet, if time particular delight. I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the cur imbodied in it, more or less, the creations of a deep and noble soul, — should we not draw near to... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Scottish essays - 1859 - 620 pages
...perusal: the great majority are as perfectly plain as perfect triteness can make them. Yet, if time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated...meditation, that he knew what he had written, and had imbodied in it, more or less, the creations of a deep and noble soul, — should we not draw near to... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1860 - 494 pages
...perusal : the great majority are as perfectly plain as perfect triteness can make them. Yet, if time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated...earnest meditation, that he knew what he had written, an<J had embodied in it, more or less, the creations of a deep and noble soul, • — should we not... | |
| Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...the following thoughts on this subject. " Time is precious, no book that will not improve by frequent readings deserves to be read at all. And were there...could know beforehand that he had not written. without a purpose, and earnest meditation, that he knew what he had written, and had embodied in it, more or... | |
| Francis Jacox - Literature - 1870 - 328 pages
...the great majority being as perfectly plain as perfect triteness can make them. Yet, he adds, if time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. A profound thinker of our time has said : " Je ne lis plus, je relis." Quoting which mot, M. Nisard... | |
| 1870 - 596 pages
...fallen nto a river like a man ruined by a bank failure ? Because he has lost his balance at the bank. No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. 144 QUESTIONS, ENIGMAS, CHARADES, ETC. 54. I am composed of 14 letters : My 1, S, 9, 10, 11, is a noise.... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 pages
...perusal : the great majority are as perfectly plain as perfect triteness can make them. Yet, if lime is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated...readings deserves to be read at alL And were there an anist of a right spirit; a man of wisdom, conscious of his high vocation, of whom we could know beforehand... | |
| Education - 1923 - 718 pages
...book. In fact we can agree with Hazlitt that a book unread is forever new and with Thomas Carlyle that "no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all." Bulwer-Lytton tells us to "select by preference in Science the newest books; in Literature, the oldest."... | |
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