 | William Ellery Channing - Self-culture - 1838 - 90 pages
...run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...BENEFITS OF BOOKS, AND ESPECIALLY TO THE GREAT MASS ОТ ТПЕ PEOPLE, — It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
 | 708 pages
...run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 636 pages
...of one family, alike immutable, universal and everlasting." p. 19-20. "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
 | England - 1839 - 684 pages
...one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. " It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds ; and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds ; and...thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked fr books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 pages
...we enjoy ii intercourse with superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are within the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give iis their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...enjoy intereourse with superior minds, and these individual means of eommunieation are in the reaeh of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most preeious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voiees of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 424 pages
...one and the same dull round of thought and action to .the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1841 - 424 pages
...one and the same dull round of thought and ac tion to the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse \ with superior minds, and...pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.... | |
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.... 
