 I see you read, Maltravers," said Ferrers, carelessly turning over the volumes on the table ; " all very right : we should begin life with books ; they multiply the sources of employment ; so does capital ; but capital is of no use unless we live on the...  Ernest Maltravers - Strona 71autor: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - Liczba stron: 112Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - Liczba stron: 376
...capital ; — but capital is of no use, unless we live on the interest, — books are waste-paper, unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought....must live upon them generously, but economically. " he fead chosen to fancy him. He roused himself languidly to reply. "Life, Mr. Ferrers " " Stop, mon... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - Liczba stron: 414
...does capital; — but capital is of no use, unless we live on the interest,—books are waste-paper, unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought....that is the life for us. At our age we have passion, limey, sentiment; we can't read them away, nor scribble them away; — we must live upon them generously,... | |
 | 1852 - Liczba stron: 432
...all very right. We sliould begin life with bovks ; they multiply the sources of enjoyment ; so docs capital : — but capital is of no use, unless we...the interest, — books are waste paper, unless we spead in action the wisdom we get from thought. Action, action ; that is the life of us. — BULWEH.... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - Liczba stron: 368
...— all very right ; we should begin life with books ; they multiply the sources of enjoyment ; — so does capital ; — but capital is of no use unless...— books are waste paper, unless we spend in action what we get from thought. Action, action ; that is the life of us. — Bulwer. — It is manifest that... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1874 - Liczba stron: 610
...does capital; — but capital is of no use, unless- we live on the interest, — books are wastepaper, unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. Action, Maltravers, action; that is the life for TO. At our age we have passion, fancy, sentiment; we can't read them away, nor scribble them away ;... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1885 - Liczba stron: 284
...measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. — Book I. Chap. 14. BEGIN LIFE WITH BOOKS. We should begin life with books ; they multiply the...we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. — Book I. Chap. 15. CRISES IN LIFE. And Ernest Maltravers one night softly stole to his room and... | |
 | Annie H. Ryder - 1886 - Liczba stron: 200
...shall be sunny poets, and will write out in many-colored words the romance that you are. EMERSON. 7. We should begin life with books, they multiply the...we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. BULWER. Nothing is to be gained by pretending to like what one really dislikes, or to enjoy what one... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1891 - Liczba stron: 450
...silence; but when Ferrers, concluding his fourth letter before another man would have got through his 6rst page, threw down the pen and looked full at Maltravers,...passion, fancy, sentiment; we can't read them away or scribble them away; we must live upon them generously, but economically." Maltravers was struck;... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - Liczba stron: 920
...of high stature; the only men that speak aloud for future time to hear. — Barrett. Books are but waste paper, unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. — Bulfver. FICTION. The best thoughts of best thinkers regarding fiction require our consideration... | |
 | 1952 - Liczba stron: 1054
...presentation on NBC's TV Opera Theatre should bring its originators a special TV Oscar. Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. Bulwer. BOOK-REVIEWS Walter Donald Kring Minister, First Unitarian Church, Worcester, Mass. WORLD RELIGIONS... | |
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