...immediately they kindled up into the warm glow of intelligence and activity. " He had found out for himself that the art of reading is the art of finding stories...moment, reading became one of the most delightful of his amusements." The stories of the Bilile are the most powerful educational appliances that have ever...

...the meaning of the most delightful of all narrations, — the story of Joseph. Was there ever such discovery made before ! I actually found out for myself,...delightful of my amusements. I began by getting into a course on the dismissal of the school, and then conning over to myself the new-found story of Joseph...

...called into exercise by a perusal of the story of Joseph, he made the greatest of all discoveries, " that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books ;" and from that moment a new era dawned on our author, and the embryo geologist collected a library in a box of birchen bark,...

...who befriended the widow and her child. lie learned to read, and soon made the delightful discovery that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books. Discovering first the story of Joseph, he got into a corner, on the dismissal of school, and there...

...schoolmistress, not knowing •whither it tended ; when at once my mind awoke to the meaning of that most delightful of all narratives — the story of...moment reading became one of the most delightful of amusements.' The stories of Samson and the Philistines, of David and Goliath, of Elijah and Elisha,...

...narratives, — the storvof Joseph. Was there everjsuch a discflyfif y fore! Factually round out for myseltj that the art of reading is the art of finding stories...delightful of my amusements. I began by getting into a comer on the dismissal of the school^ and there conning over to myself the new-found story of Joseph...

...in the course of his sixth year, after much labour and small apparent profit, he made the discovery that ' the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books.' Did ever child in Eastern romance light on so wonderful a talisman ! The gates flew open and the gardens...

...in the course of his sixth year learned to read. At that early age he made his first great discovery "that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books." No one ever made a discovery with greater delight. A new world seemed opened out to him. He had no...

...explain all to him. He actually, he says, made the wonderful discovery that the " art of reading was the art of finding stories in books ;" and from that...moment reading became one of the most delightful of his amusements. Having in this way, with the newly-found story of Joseph, lighted upon a mine which...

...highest form in the dame's school as a member of the Bible class. But all the while the process of learning had been a dark one, which I slowly mastered,...became one of the most delightful of my amusements. I 1 Sparks's Life of Franhlin, part i. began by getting into a corner on the dismissal of the school,...