Papers on preaching and public speaking . commonto the whole race of mankind, and they alone areable to express it. Surely the pleasures of reading are sufficient tomake the task as acceptable as it is assuredly neces-sary to make the complete and efficient teacher. Thejoy to be derived from reading is well described inthe anecdote told by Mr. Aris Willmott in hisPleasu7es of Literature:— An affecting instance ofthe tenderness and compensations of learning is fur-nished by the old age of Usher, when no glassescould help his failing sight, and a book was darkexcept beneath the strongest light o
Papers on preaching and public speaking . commonto the whole race of mankind, and they alone areable to express it. Surely the pleasures of reading are sufficient tomake the task as acceptable as it is assuredly neces-sary to make the complete and efficient teacher. Thejoy to be derived from reading is well described inthe anecdote told by Mr. Aris Willmott in hisPleasu7es of Literature:— An affecting instance ofthe tenderness and compensations of learning is fur-nished by the old age of Usher, when no glassescould help his failing sight, and a book was darkexcept beneath the strongest light of a window. .Hopeful and resigned, he continued his task, fol-lowing the sun from room to room of the house helived in, until the shadows of the trees disappearedfrom the grass, and the day was gone. Howstrange and delightful must have been his feelingswhen some brilliant sunbeam fell upon some half-remembered passage, and thought after thoughtshone out from the misty words, like the features ofa familiar landscape in a clearing CHAPTER XVI. REALITY.
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