Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notice is given that Messrs. Wm. Read and Sons have terminated their engagement with the society. Hereafter they will not give discounts to members See reference list under guns; also bicycles, (second-hand only...
...subject, he began by saying, was best stated as "realing in college." Though this simple knowledge how to read gives to man, whatever his other acquirements, the solid basis for an education, yet the library-the greater opportunity here-is neither fully nor wisely used. Before men have learned to choose, they are injured by the tremendous mass offered to them, much of which is trivial, much enervating, much even bad. For reading, like the choice of friends, is serious; no gentleman can spend time upon low-minded books. And the time spent merely upon what is trivial...
...great many lists have been recently published of the "hundred best books." The lists are often entertaining, but not valuable. For no hundred best books can be picked out. Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest...
Notice is given that Wm. Read and Sons, Boston, have terminated their arrangement with the society. Hereafter they will not give discounts to members. (See reference list under guns and bicycles, second-hand only...
Notice is given that Wm. Read and Sons, Boston, have terminated their arrangement with the society. Hereafter they will not give discounts to members. (See reference list under guns and bicycles, second-hand only...