 Do not Books still accomplish miracles, as Runes were fabled to do ? They persuade men. Not the wretchedest circulating-library novel, which foolish girls thumb and con in remote villages, but will help to regulate the actual practical weddings and households...  Proceedings of the Annual Convention ... - Side 349af Religious Education Association - 1905Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 304 sider
...magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. . Do not Books still accomplish miracles, as Runes were fabled to do ?...weddings and households of those foolish girls. So " Celia " felt, so "Clifford" acted: the foolish Theorem of Life, stamped into those young brains,... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1897 - 934 sider
...is one of the worst symptoms of our age. Carlyle did not put the case too strongly when he wrote : " Not the wretchedest circulating-library novel which...weddings and households of those foolish girls. So ' Celia ' felt, so ' Clifford ' acted ; the foolish Theorem of Life stamped into those young brains... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 292 sider
...magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. Do not Books still accomplish miracles, as Runes were fabled to do? They...circulating-library novel, which foolish girls thumb and con 1 According to the Elder Edda, Odin hung for nine nights in the tree Igdrasil (see p. 96), as a sacrifice... | |
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