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Many other services which they render might be mentioned, such as preaching and hearing confessions, the publication of books and periodicals, the cultivation of the arts, science, literature and theology.
And we probably are only a few years away from a storage disk capable of holding all the print media of our planet. What about documents other than text? As of December 2006, there are 367 computer-generated audio books and 132 human-read audio books. The number of human-read books should greatly increase over the next few years. There were 412 books in May 2008.
Brought a big trunk with him, an' in it was a lot of books in French, Dutch or some other language that no white man can understand. And fight! You know Big Dave Cole, that's been with me for years?" I assured him that I should never forget "Big Dave" Cole. I have known him ever since he went to work for Bishop, and that was when I was a boy.
"I shouldn't think," said Denny, "that it was so very difficult to be one." "I don't know," said Dicky. "You have to read very dull books and an awful lot of them, and remember what you read, what's more." "I don't think so," said Alice. "That girl who came with the antiquities the one Albert's uncle said was upholstered in red plush like furniture she hadn't read anything, you bet."
I" She yawned again, showing her small, brilliant teeth "I wonder what sort of people write these immoral romances!" "Probably immoral people," said Sylvia indifferently. "Drop it on the coals, Grace." But Mrs. Ferrall reopened the book where she had laid her finger to mark the place. "Do you think so?" she asked. "Think what?" "That rotten books and plays come from morally rotten people?"
The instruments of death and misery, are already prepared for them. This time and day Christ brings down to an hour, saying, "The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth;" &c. All their deeds and works, to a word and thought, are every one already recorded and enrolled in the books of the laws of heaven against that day.
To this end, attention should be directed, 1st, To the value of the ideas collected; 2dly, To their discipline; 3dly, To their expression. For the first, acquirement is necessary; for the second, discipline; for the third, art. The first comprehends knowledge purely intellectual, whether derived from observation, memory, reflection, books, or men, Aristotle or Fleet Street.
Compared with the youth taught by these methods, one brought up exclusively by books carries through life a certain remoteness from reality: he stands, as it were, out of the pale, and feels that he stands so; and often suffers a kind of melancholy from which he might have been rescued by a more real education.
There are four more books, which, with the five named, make up the "Nine Classics." These were written by the pupils and disciples of Confucius, the most important being the Mang tsze, or "Works of Mencius."
To Westminster Hall, and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queen, which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, that we did nothing but laugh at it: among other things it is dedicated to that paragon of virtue and beauty the Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk as if the Duke of York do now own the marriage between him and the Chancellor's daughter.
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