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That he that readeth may run over it.
[Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]
That he that readeth may run over it.
[Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for read more
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for an observer.
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well read more
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but read more
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless
implied, will be able to form some conception.
Television is a corporate vulgarity.
Television is a corporate vulgarity.
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of read more
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books read more
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of
science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will
grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or
religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the
ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a
lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
