 | Sherman Williams - 1898 - 344 pagine
...thinking that makes what we read ours. — LOCKE. The three practical rules I have to offer are : 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never...famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like. — EMERSON. The most instructive reading for a person of any age, old or young, is that in which the... | |
 | 1899 - 730 pagine
...who dare speak of such a thing? The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer are : ( 1 ) Never read any book that is not a year old. (2) Never...books. (3) Never read any but what you like ; or, in Shakespeare's phrase, 'No profit poes where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most... | |
 | 1901 - 140 pagine
...but who dare speak of such a thing ? The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never...books. 3. Never read any but what you like ; or, in Shakespeare's phrase, " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en ; In brief, Sir, study what you most... | |
 | 1902 - 112 pagine
...and reprinted after a century ! — it is as if Minos and Rhadamanthus had indorsed the writing. T is therefore an economy of time to read old and famed...books. 3. Never read any but what you like ; or, in Shakespeare's phrase, — " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 pagine
...thinking that makes what we read ours. — LOCKE. The three practical rules I have to offer are : 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never...famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like. — EMERSON. * The most instructive reading for a person of any age, old or young, is that in which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pagine
...twenty years, — and reprinted after a century ! — it is as if Minos and Rhadamanthus had endorsed the writing. 'Tis therefore an economy of time to...books. 3. Never read any but what you like ; or, in Shakespeare's phrase, " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en : •' In brief, sir, study what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 474 pagine
...the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without ask' ing, in the street and the train. Dr. Johnson said " he...Shakspeare's phrase,— " No profit goes where is no pleasure ti'en: In brief, sir, study what you most affect." s Montaigne says, " Books are a languid pleasure;"... | |
 | 1904 - 1320 pagine
...The three practical rules," he says, ' ' which I have to offer are: Í . Never read any book which is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 8. Never read any but what you like." Thus out of tens of thousands of books that issue from the press... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1905 - 426 pagine
...no mean books "; and when, in more definite language, he lays down his three well-known rules: " 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never...books. 3. Never read any but what you like; or, in Shakespeare's phrase — ' No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en ; In brief, sir, study what you... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1905 - 1312 pagine
...information. " The three practical rules," he says, "which I have to offer are: 1. Never read any book which is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 8. Never read any but what yon like." Thus out of tens of thousands of books that issue from the press... | |
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Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like ; or, in Shakespeare's phrase, " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en : •' In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 
