 What are the subjects, what are the class of books we are to read, in what order, with what connection, to what ultimate use or object? Even those who are resolved to read the better books are embarrassed by a field of choice practically boundless. The...  The Choice of Books - Page 11by Frederic Harrison - 1891 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1879 - 592 pages
...are embarrassed by a field of choice practically boundless. The longest life, the greatest industry, the most powerful memory, would not suffice to make...all his life gathering a few shells on the shore, while a boundless ocean of truth still lay beyond and unknown to him, how much more to each of us must... | |
 | 1880 - 786 pages
...would not suffice to maku us profit from a hundredth part of the world of books before us. If the grcai Newton said that he seemed to have been all his life...beyond and unknown to him, how much more to each of lis must the sea of literature be a pathless immeusitybeyond our powers of vision or of reach — an... | |
 | 1880 - 784 pages
...memory, would not suffice to make us profit from a hundredth part of the world of b'.okr; before 4s. It the great Newton said that he seemed to have been all his life gathering a few fuells on the shore, whilst a boundless ocean of truth still lay beyond and unknown to him, how much... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 488 pages
...to those who resolutely avoid the idleness of reading what is trivial, a difficulty is presented—a difficulty every day increasing by virtue even of...pathless immensity beyond our powers of vision or of reach—an immensity in which industry itself is useless without judgment, method, discipline; where... | |
 | 1898 - 160 pages
...what order, with what connection, to what ultimate use or object? Even those who are resolved to read better books are embarrassed by a field of choice...— an immensity in which industry itself is useless What Class of Book to Read FREDERIC HARRISON 1831 What Class of Book to Read FREDERIC HARRISON 1831... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...are embarrassed by a field of choice practically boundless. The longest life, the greatest industry, the most powerful memory, would not suffice to make...beyond and unknown to him, how much more to each of us vi — 131 must the sea of literature be a pathless immensity beyond our powers of vision or of reach,... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...suffice to make us profit from a hundredth part of the world of books before us. If the great Newton 25 said that he seemed to have been all his life gathering...powers of vision or of reach — an immensity in which 30 industry itself is useless without judgment, method, discipline; where it is of infinite importance... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 pages
...thing is ignorance of all the greater literature of the world. To neglect all the abiding parts of knowledge for the sake of the evanescent parts is...all his life gathering a few shells on the shore, while a boundless ocean of truth still lay beyond and unknown to him, how much more to each of us must... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...to read, in what order, with what connection, io What Ultimate tise or object/ liven those who aft resolved to read the better books are embarrassed...all his life gathering a few shells on the shore, while a boundless ocean of truth still lay beyond and unknown to him, how much more to each of us must... | |
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