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" ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly 'illiterate... "
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly - Page 844
1896
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 208

Literature - 1896 - 854 pages
...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,...— that is to say, with real accuracy, — you are forevermore in some measure an educated person. The entire difference between education and noneducation...
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Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864

John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1865 - 256 pages
...(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. The entire difference between education and non-education...
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Pre-Raphaelitism

John Ruskin - Pre-Raphaelitism - 1865 - 302 pages
...(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...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: Sesame ...

John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 pages
...and remain 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, — you are for evermore in some measure an educated person. The entire difference between education and non-education...
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An Analysis of the English Language, Or, The Elements of Sentences in Their ...

Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1874 - 336 pages
...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...
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The Great Slighted Fortune

John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 482 pages
...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...
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John Ruskin: A Bibliographical Biography

William Edward Armytage Axon - Authors, English - 1879 - 32 pages
...(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...
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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volume 5

Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...(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...
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Education, Volume 45

Education - 1925 - 700 pages
...all the books in the British Museum, and remain an utterly 'illiterate,' uneducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter...— that is to say, with real accuracy — you are forevermore in some measure an educated person." Whatever else a secondary education does — or fails...
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Education, Volume 24

Education - 1904 - 692 pages
...British Museum if you could live long enough, and remain an utterly illiterate, uneducated person; but if you read 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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