Handbook for Readers and Students, Intended as a Help to Individuals, Associations, School Districts and Seminaries of Learning, in the Selection of Works for Reading, Investigation, Or Professional StudyHarper & Brothers, 1843 - 330 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 61
Side ix
... our own language . Such a work may be valuable to the practised and erudite scholar , but can afford little aid to that great mass of readers who are chiefly anxious about the moral and intellectual INTRODUCTION . ix.
... our own language . Such a work may be valuable to the practised and erudite scholar , but can afford little aid to that great mass of readers who are chiefly anxious about the moral and intellectual INTRODUCTION . ix.
Side x
... moral spirit and ten- dency of books ; and that this manual does not pro- fess to exhibit a complete enumeration even of the best works in our own language . On professional subjects it touches but incidentally , and enters with no ...
... moral spirit and ten- dency of books ; and that this manual does not pro- fess to exhibit a complete enumeration even of the best works in our own language . On professional subjects it touches but incidentally , and enters with no ...
Side 24
... moral turpitude of his hero . South- ey's Life of Nelson is an instance in which a very pure and entertaining writer has not escaped this seductive influence . If the reader is looking forward to the medical profession , let him read ...
... moral turpitude of his hero . South- ey's Life of Nelson is an instance in which a very pure and entertaining writer has not escaped this seductive influence . If the reader is looking forward to the medical profession , let him read ...
Side 28
... moral and political facts to fundamental principles , and to consider practical questions in the light of those principles . Selecting books with reference to the wants of beginners , I know of none bet- ter than the following : 1 ...
... moral and political facts to fundamental principles , and to consider practical questions in the light of those principles . Selecting books with reference to the wants of beginners , I know of none bet- ter than the following : 1 ...
Side 41
... Moral Philosophy , & c . , & c .; Ramus's Logic ; Gassendi's works , reviving and modifying the Epicurean Philosophy ; Bacon's Novum Organum , & c . , & c .; Des Cartes's Discourse upon Method , Meditations , and Principia ; also his ...
... Moral Philosophy , & c . , & c .; Ramus's Logic ; Gassendi's works , reviving and modifying the Epicurean Philosophy ; Bacon's Novum Organum , & c . , & c .; Des Cartes's Discourse upon Method , Meditations , and Principia ; also his ...
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
45 cents 90 cents abridgment admirable American Anatomy ancient Athenæum Averroes B.C. See third Bacon's beautiful Best edition biography Bishop Boccacio Brantome celebrated century character Chitty Christian Cicero classical Clement of Alexandria Commentaries connexion contains course Demosthenes distinguished Duns Scotus elegant eloquence eminent England English Essays Europe excellent folio French Froissart's Chronicles genius German Greek and Latin Hallam Henry historians human ical interest Irenæus Julius Cæsar knowledge labours language learning Lectures Letters literature Lives Livy London Memoirs merit mind modern moral narrative Natural History New-York orations original Paris philosophy Plutarch poems poet poetical poetry political Practice principles prose published Quintilian reader religion remarkable Roman Roman Republic says Scholia spirit student style talent taste Theology Thomas à Kempis thought Thucydides tion translated Travels treatise valuable views vols volume Voyages wrote Xenophon
Populære avsnitt
Side 43 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Side 279 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Side 16 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Side 29 - The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the earliest Accounts to the death of Augustus.
Side 42 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Side 39 - Government, that learning should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable: we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians, which commonly have a few pleasing receipts whereupon they are confident and adventurous...
Side 17 - Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection.
Side 277 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
Side 199 - The History of Modern Europe : with a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763.
Side 73 - Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember...