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" ... ungrateful task — not to be ranked with the simple enjoyments ; it is a possession to be acquired only by habit. The great religious poets, the imaginative teachers of the heart, are never easy reading. But the reading of them is a religious habit,... "
The Choice of Books: And Other Literary Pieces - Page 80
by Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 447 pages
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 6

1879 - 592 pages
...the reading of them is a religious habit rather than an intellectual effort. I pretend not to-night to be dealing with a matter so deep and high as religion,...meditation, and reverential thought. I need speak not to-night of such reading as that of the Bible ; the moral reflections of Socrates, of Aristotle, of...
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The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 1

1880 - 784 pages
...reading of them is a religious habit, rather than an intellectual effort. I pretend not to-night to bo dealing with a matter so deep and high as religion, or indeed with education in the fuller взпиз. I will say nothing of that side of reading which is really hard study, an effort of duty,...
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Choice Literature, Volume 1

1880 - 786 pages
...the reading of them is a religious habit, rather than an intellectual effort. I pretend not to-night to be dealing with a matter so deep and high as religion, or indeed with education ia the fuller sense. I will say nothing of that side of reading which is really hard study, an effort...
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The Book-lover's Enchiridion

1884 - 532 pages
...the reading of them is a religious habit, rather than an intellectual effort. I pretend not to-night to be dealing with a matter so deep and high as religion,...meditation and reverential thought. I need speak not to-night of such reading as that of the Bible ; the moral reflections of Socrates, of Aristotle, of...
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The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos ...

Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...the reading of them is a religious habit, rather than an intellectual effort. I pretend not to-night to be dealing with a matter so deep and high as religion,...meditation and reverential thought. I need speak not to-night of such reading as that of the Bible ; the moral reflections of Socrates, of Aristotle, of...
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The Use and Misuse of Books

Frederic Harrison - 1896 - 68 pages
...the imaginative teachers of the heart, are never easy reading. But the reading of them is a religions habit, rather than an intellectual effort. I pretend...; the Confessions of St. Augustine and the City of Ood ; the discourses of St. Bernard, of Bossuet, of Bishop Butler, of Jeremy Taylor ; the vast philosophical...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 6

David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...But the reading of them is a religious habit, rather than an intellectual effort. I pretend not now to be dealing with a matter so deep and high as religion,...meditation and reverential thought. I need speak not now of such reading as that of the Bible; the moral reflections of Socrates, of Aristotle, of Confucius;...
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Right Reading: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books

1902 - 112 pages
...getting some definite idea of the mighty realm whose outer rim we are permitted to approach. . . . I will say nothing of that side of reading which is...duty, matter of meditation and reverential thought. . . . For I am speaking now of the use of books in our leisure hours. I will take the books of simple...
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The Choice of Books

Frederic Harrison - 1906 - 210 pages
...to all men, and at all seasons. The Divine Comedy, in its way, reaches as deep in its thoughtfulness as Descartes himself. But these books, if they are...; the Confessions of St. Augustine and the City of &od; the discourses of St. Bernard, of Bossuet, of Bishop Butler, of Jeremy Taylor ; the vast philosophical...
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