 And yet we act as if every book were as good as any other, as if it were merely a question of order which we take up first, as if any book were good enough for us, and as if all were alike honorable, precious, and satisfying.  The Choice of Books - Page 20by Frederic Harrison - 1891 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1879 - 592 pages
...precious, and satisfying. Alas ! books can not be more than the men who write them ; and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...steam-engines, pictures, fiddles, bonnets, and other thoughtful or ornamental products of human industry. In the shelves of those libraries which are our... | |
 | 1880 - 786 pages
...honourable, precious, and satisfying. Alas ! books cannot be more than the men who write them, and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...houses, steam-engines, pictures, fiddles, bonnets, aud other thoughtful or ornamental products of human industry. In the shelves of those libraries which... | |
 | 1880 - 784 pages
...honourable, precious, aud satisfying. Alas ! books cannot be more than the men who write them, and us a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...objects as various as human activity, books as books arc entitled n priori, until then' value is proved, to the same attention and respect as bouses, steam-engines,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 108 pages
...honorable, precious, and satisfying. Alas! bpoks cannot be more than the men who write them, and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...steam-engines, pictures, fiddles, bonnets, and other thoughtful or ornamental products of human industry. In the shelves of those libraries which are our... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 236 pages
...honourable, precious, and satisfying. Alas ! books cannot be more than the men who write them, and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...proved, to the same attention and respect as houses, steam engines, pictures, fiddles, bonnets, and other thoughtful or ornamental products of human industry.... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...precious, and satisfying. Alas ! books cannot be more than the men who write them ; and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...various as human activity, books, as books, are entitled <J priori, until their value is proved, to the same attention and respect as houses, steamengines,... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 pages
...honourable, precious, and satisfying. Alas! books cannot be more than the men who write them ; and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...various as human activity, books, as books, are entitled & priori, until their value is proved, to the same attention and respect as houses, steamengines, pictures,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1883 - 220 pages
...honorable, precious, and satisfying. Alas ! books cannot be more than the men who write them, and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...various as human activity, books as books are entitled & priori, until their value is proved, to the same attention and respect as houses, steam-engines,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 488 pages
...which we take up first, as if any book were good enough for us, and as if all were alike honourable, precious, and satisfying. Alas! books cannot be more...various as human activity, books, as books, are entitled it primi, until their value is proved, to the same attention and respect as houses, steam-engines,... | |
 | 1888 - 102 pages
...precious, and satisfying. " Alas! books can not be more than the men who write them, and as a large proportion of the human race now write books, with...proved to the same attention and respect as houses, steam engines, pictures, fiddles, bonnets, and other thoughtful or ornamental products of human industry."... | |
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