...the habit of one-sided reading. The essayist pleads that the choice of books «is really a choice of education, of a moral and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty of man.» He warns readers that pleasure in the reading of great books is a faculty to be acquired, not a natural...

...3-7 The thing is etc.: Mr. Frederic Harrison says : " The choice of books is really the choice of an education, of a moral and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty of man." 29 17-21 If people have their tastes etc.: Mr. Augustine Birrell says: " If, then, we would possess...

...the habit of one-sided reading. The essayist pleads that the choice of books Kis really a choice of education, of a moral and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty of man.» He warns readers that pleasure in the reading of great books is a faculty to be acquired, not a natural...

...it, as I cannot say all that I would. The Choice of Books is really the choice of our education, s of a moral and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty...extravagance of expecting too much from books, the 10 pedant's habit of extolling books as synonymous with education. Books are no more education than...

...it, as I cannot say all that I would. The Choice of Books is really the choice of our education, 5 of a moral and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty...the extravagance of expecting too much from books, the1o pedant's habit of extolling books as synonymous with education. Books are no more education than...

...heart-breaking, that I forbear now to treat it, as I cannot say all that I would. The, choice of books-is-really the choice of our education, of a moral and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty of man/^'But though I shrink from any so high a theme, a few words are needed to indicate my general point...

...thought, as if it were destined one day to overwhelm the great inheritance of mankind in prose and verse. The Choice of Books is really the choice of our education,...extolling books as synonymous with education. Books arc no more education than laws are virtue ; and just as profligacy is easy within the strict limits...

...girls should be guided to the best! For is it not true, as Mr. Harrison again impressively says, that "The choice of books is really the choice of our education,...and intellectual ideal ; of the whole duty of man" — ? At the age of the secondary school moral and ethical questions are particularly interesting to...

..."Every book that we take up without a purpose is an opportunity lost of taking up a book with a purpose. The choice of books is really the choice of our education,...and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty of man." And once you have declared for the best books it needs no Delphic utterance to tell you which the best...