In after years we may realise that many of our hobbies are but vanities, but the love of good books is something far beyond all these ephemeral pursuits.
Good books do not instruct us so much as they persuade us; so that we come to be of the same mind as the great man who had deliberated and debated the matter so thoroughly for us.
Good books, that is the books that 'live,' are no mere education, they are steps up the path of civilisation itself.
To the teacher or professional man, a collection of good books is as necessary as a kit of tools to a carpenter.
For a captain to pray, and read Scripture or good books, and sing psalms with his soldiers, and with mariners at sea, when they have no minister.
And I think it is commonly agreed on, that where there is no minister, it is better for the people to meet and hear a layman read the Scriptures and some good books, than to have no public helps and worship.
The printing of good books, to expound and apply the Scripture; commentaries, sermons, &c.
This is the pre-eminence of good books before a transient speech, that they may be a more durable help and benefit.
When we are more thankful to God or man for outward riches, or any gift for the provision of the flesh, than for hopes or helps in order to salvation; for a powerful ministry, good books, or seasonable instructions for the soul.
We will simply speak of good books, serious books, on the one hand, and of light and merely amusing books on the other, in an intentionally vague way.
Surround your growing boy or girl with a generous supply of good books, and leave writer and growing soul to do their business together without any scholastic control of their intercourse.
If the attention of the children in school is directed to good books, and the free library contains such books, there will be no thought of the news-stand as the place for finding reading matter.
Among the many readers of good books, there will always be some whose notions of the poetical proprieties suffer greatly by the facts of Keats's history.
So said a man who, during a busy career, found time to add several fine volumes to the scanty number of good books.
He is celebrated as a lover of good books, though only a single example of his choice survived into the present generation.
That every boy who is going to become a mature reader of good books needs to know the myths of Greece and Rome, goes without saying.
After feeling the need of good booksin the home where they can be turned to as the fancy directs, and after feeling a desire to buy such books, the boy will next need to know what titles to select.
Either will be a shelf of good books, neither a shelf of the best books, since if best for you or me, they may not be best for everybody.
It is astonishing how much a bright child will absorb from being brought up in the atmosphere of good books, being allowed to constantly use them, to handle them, to be familiar with their bindings and titles.
Such passion, and often such style, is to be found in all these books when they are good books.
It is the stupid reviewer who exasperates beyond patience the lover of good books.
Good books, like well-built houses, must have tradition behind them.
Small advertisements--perhaps a page of small advertisements of good books--in a magazine of this class will bring returns, especially if the books have been well reviewed.
For publishing houses have this distinction over most other commercial institutions--they rest on the friendship of the most interesting persons in the world, the writers of good books.
The second type wants all thegood books treating of the subject especially.
Until we affect production to the extent that the book stores circulate as good books as the best libraries we cannot be too complacent about our position as a force in citizen making.
Let me do what I will, I say my Prayers as often as another, and I read in good Books, as often as I have Leisure; and Parson William says, that will make amends.
Your sister has bought this van and its contents, and I have been instructing her in my theories of the dissemination of good books.
I imagined him in his beloved Brooklyn, strolling in Prospect Park and preaching to chance comers his gospel of good books.
But, whatever else you do, do not waste your time in urging your pupils to stop story-reading and to devote their time to good books.
A parent can command this, you cannot; but you can make the use of good books, and the acquisition of knowledge not found in books, attractive and even necessary, and your ability to do this determines your real value as a teacher.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good books" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
