 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1888 - 572 páginas
...little, and sometimes weak and say too much, the blame must lie at the door of the person who entrapped me. The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. . . Shakspere has served me best. Few living friends have had upon me an influence so strong for good... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 páginas
...Uses of Great Men. An old novel has a history of its own. 1503 Alexander Smith : Dreamthorp. Essay i. The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. . . . They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - 1891 - 96 páginas
...—Balzac. It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons. — BO-. bovt't.'. The most influential books, and the truest in their...they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. — RL Stevenson. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 páginas
...self-righteous chuckle, is to be talking in one's sleep with Heedless and Too-bold in the arbour. ' I " HE most influential books, and the truest *- in their...afterwards discover to be inexact ; they do not teach a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 páginas
...one's sleep with Heedless and Too.bold in the arbour. 'T* HE most influential books, and the truest A in their influence, are works of fiction. They do...afterwards discover to be inexact ; they do not teach a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of... | |
 | Fabiola hospital association - 1899 - 94 páginas
...only. — Balzac. It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons. — Bovee. The most influential books, and the truest in their...they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. — RL Stevenson. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw... | |
 | Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - 386 páginas
...certain peculiarities. Goethe. January 4. JACOB LUDWIG GRIMM, 1785. THE most influential books . . . are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to...they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. Stevenson. THE moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Can lure... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1899 - 56 páginas
...NEDL TRANSFER HN lURNEYS IN FICTION ALFRED M. HITCHCOCK JOURNEYS IN FICTION BY ALFRED M. HITCHCOCK, MA The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. — RL STEVENSON. ALLYN AND BACON I -.A.'.'. •'.--U' UNIVERSITY? COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY ALFRED M. HITCHCOCK... | |
 | 1900 - 780 páginas
...Shakers. 1895. Pallen, С. В. New Rubáiyát. See Book notes. ENGLISH NOVELS AND TRANSLATIONS. Class 69b. The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works ot fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma, which he must afterwards discover to be inexact;... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1901 - 298 páginas
...into the confessional box, beginning with what will be to many a somewhat startling generalisation : " The most influential books and the truest in their influence are works of fiction." To the readers of the British Weekly, at any rate, itself a religious paper, the term "fiction" may... | |
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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma, which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn. 
