Then the book is not to blame; I repeat that the book is a good book, and contains deep morality, always supposing that there is such a thing as morality, which is the same thing as supposing that there is anything at all.
And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.
Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
No book should be bought merely because it is a good book, but because we know that it can be made useful in the attainment of certain desired ends.
Many a man lives, a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life.
Now and then we may pick up a good book, too, for this class of readers; but there are many worthless books here, as elsewhere, and careful parents will look well into that which they buy.
Nine times out of ten, when a woman customer says 'Is this a good book?
It claims to be "a good book to learn to speak French for those who wish to do merchandise in France, and elsewhere in other lands where the folk speak French.
This exception may, no doubt, be explained by the fact that Pynson was the first to print the Good Book to learn to speak French.
It is a good book to pick up and while away a leisure hour, perhaps, but it is not a work that could rivet your interest till midnight, while the fire went out and the thermometer stepped down to 47° below zero.
As I said, however, it is a good book to pick up for the purpose of whiling away an idle hour.
It is a good book, as I say, to take up for a moment, or to read on the train, or to hold the door open on a hot day.
Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
A good book is often the best urn of a life, enshrining the best thoughts of which that life was capable; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts.
As good almost," he says, "kill a man as you kill a good book.
The army is a good book to open to study human life.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a= 40 =master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment.
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
Part of the secret lay in this idea: to be a good book-hunter one must not be too dainty; one must not be afraid of soiling one's hands.
If the practiced writer often fails to make a good book because he knows nothing, Mr. Hardy must succeed in large part because he knows so much.
He saw no objection to inserting a rare portrait in a good book.
Then, I take it that no matter how immoral a book may be, if it is well written it is, in your opinion, a good book?
Not cultivated enough to draw the distinction between a good book and a bad book?
Then a well-written book putting forward perverted moral views may be a good book?
Meantime, I rest your glad debtor for the good book.
The book is a good book, and goes to make men brave and happy.
If it is the kind to be a "big seller," a risk can possibly be taken on a larger advertising investment than would be warranted in the case of a good book of finer quality and limited appeal.
And when one contemplates the huge success of Mrs. Humphry Ward's and Edith Wharton's distinguished novels, one is obliged to accept the comforting conviction that the reading public of this country knows a good book when it sees it.
The difficulty of good book-making is greater now than ever.
It would not be easy to fix the limit in this vast country to the circulation of a good book if it were properly kept before the public.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good book" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
