 | 1882 - 404 pages
...of the work he sets forth in these words: " As a prominent writer puts it, 'That writer accomplishes the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time' ; and I have not forgotten in my effort to make the work useful to all the wise observation of him... | |
 | 1883 - 804 pages
...To break the shock blind nature cannot shun, And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore. Young. That writer does the most who gives his reader the...most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. Abundance is a blessing to the wise ; The use of riches in discretion lies: Learn this ye men of wealth... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 pages
...feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by ; it is good, and made by a good workman. (Bruyire. That writer does the most, who gives his reader the...most knowledge and takes from him the least time. (CC Colion A library may be regarded as the solemn chamber in which a man may take counsel with all... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by ; it is good, and made by a good workman. (Sruytrc. That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge and take* from him the least time. (CC Colton A library may be regarded as the solemn chamber in which... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 pages
...as good companions, and, in both instances, all tha we can learn from bad ones is, that so much tim has been worse than thrown away. That writer does...rationally employed is that which alone deserves the name о life ; and that portion of our life is most rationally employed which is occupied in enlarging our... | |
 | Sheldon and Company - 1886 - 208 pages
...books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid than which to choose ; fo1 good books are as scarce as good companions, and in...most knowledge and takes from him the least time. — Cotton. 2. A man should never be ashamed to own he was in the wrong, which is but saying in other... | |
 | 1886 - 414 pages
...he no talk so moche better as that what you talk, I chop he dam head off." That writer does the best who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. If you are determined to live and die a slave to custom, see that at least it is a good one. — EP... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pages
...discontinued at a time when a little more patience would have resulted in a turn of the tide.— Printers Ink. That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. Sidney Smith once remarked, " After you have written an article, take your pen and strike out half... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 pages
...Divine Providence permitted to occur I was not too proud to report. DANA, Art of Newspaper Making. That writer does the most who gives his reader the...most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. COI/TON, I.aeon. Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a... | |
 | Karl Brown, Melvil Dewey, Frederick Leypoldt, Bertine Emma Weston, Helen E. Wessels - 1909 - 822 pages
...circulating library should at times receive attention. I. THE CIRCULATING LIBRARY.* IT was once said "That writer does the most who gives his reader the...most knowledge and takes from him the least time." Therefore, I will try to give you what facts I can concerning the Circulating Library, in as short... | |
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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. 
