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" I have found the university did for me, is, that it taught me to read, in various languages, in various sciences; so that I could go into the books which treated of these things, and gradually CARLTLB penetrate into any department I wanted to make myself... "
Orations from Homer to William McKinley - Page 5296
edited by - 1902
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On the Choice of Books: The Inaugural Address of Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle - Books and reading - 1866 - 112 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, the clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous in your reading ; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1866 - 490 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, the clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous in your reading. And learn to be good readers, •which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn...
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Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 7

Penny readings - 1866 - 256 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, the clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous in your reading ; and learn to be fjood readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn...
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On the Choice of Books

Thomas Carlyle - Books and reading - 1871 - 256 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, the clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous 1866.] DISCRIMINATION IN READING. 137 in your reading ; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps,...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...in various sciences: so that I could go into the books which treated of these things, and gradually penetrate into any department I wanted to make myself master of, as I found it suit me. l.KAKN TO BE GOOD READERS AND GOOD WOBKERS. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully,...
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The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane

Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, der as a public crime.* This paper, gentlemen, insists upon the necessity of emancipating the ; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to...
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The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the ...

Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, give. Mr Grenvilla thought better of the ; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to...
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On the Choice of Books

Thomas Carlyle - Books and reading - 1877 - 104 pages
...clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous in your . reading ; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learu to be discriminative in your reading, — - to read all kinds of things that you have an interest...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Library ...

Library Association - Libraries - 1879 - 214 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, the clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous in your reading ; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine." * The...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the ..., Volume 1

Library Association - Libraries - 1879 - 214 pages
...wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, the clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous in your reading ; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine." * The...
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