 | Literature - 1896 - 854 pages
...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 - 256 pages
...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 - 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1867 - 144 pages
...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 - 212 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1871 - 268 pages
...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 forevermore in some measure an educated person. The entire difference between education and noneducation... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 482 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1879 - 32 pages
...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 - English literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...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 from... | |
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... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly 
