 | 1896 - Страниц: 854
...words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter. . . . Yon might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utter "illiterate," uneducated person; but ... if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1865 - Страниц: 256
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle : — that you might read all the books in the British Museum...an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy*... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1865 - Страниц: 302
...(if yon could live long enough), and remain an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person j but that if you read ten pages \ of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy, — yon are for evermore in some measure an educated person. The entire difference between education... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - Страниц: 144
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle: —that you might read all the books in the British Museum...an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages -- of a good book, letter by letter,—that is to say, with real accuracy,—you... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - Страниц: 212
...books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real fact : — that you might read all the books in the British Museum...an utterly " illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good 2 book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1874 - Страниц: 336
...words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, "syllable by syllable, — nay," letter by letter. ... If you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,...— that is to say, with real accuracy, — you are for evermore in some measure an educated person. ... A welleducated gentleman may not know many languages... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - Страниц: 482
...the words of Montaigne's books], and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive." Ruskin says : " If you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,...— that is to say, with real accuracy, — you are for evermore, in Borne measure, an educated person." In another place, he remarks : " No book is worth... | |
 | William Edward Armytage Axon - 1879 - Страниц: 32
...On books there are many pregnant sentences, as this one which goes to the root of the matter : — You might read all the books in the British Museum...remain an utterly " illiterate" uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter — that is to say with real accuracy —... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1879 - Страниц: 336
...Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly " illiterate" uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter...— that is to say with real accuracy — you are for evermore in some measure an educated person. As an example of real reading, he gives that passage... | |
 | 1904 - Страниц: 692
...intensely at words, and securing yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable, nay, letter by letter. You might read all the books in the British Museum...ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, that is, with real accuracy, you are forever in some measure an educated person." Reading is good as long as... | |
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... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly 
