The advice is good, and it is well to remember that by far the majority of great book-collectors have lived to a ripe old age.
The true merit of a great book must be learned from the book itself.
If Bacon's Essays had been furnished by a modern hand to the "Quarterly Review" at fifty guineas a sheet, what a great book it would have taken to hold them!
Here is a great book, a solid octavo of five hundred pages, full of the vagaries of this class of organizations.
A GREAT BOOK IS A GREAT EVIL [Greek: Mega biblion mega kakon] A man who publishes his works in a volume has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his writings to the world in loose tracts and single pieces.
This gave occasion to the famous Greek proverb which I have chosen for my motto, That a great book is a great evil.
She can read a great book once a month or once in three months according to the time she has and she can think and talk about what she reads.
It is not a great book, it is simple and concrete.
In spite of contemporary criticism, The Romany Rye is a great book, or rather it contains the concluding chapters of a great book.
Who can cross London Bridge even to-day without thinking of the apple-woman and her copy of Moll Flanders; and many passages of Borrow’s great book make a very special appeal to the lover of London.
Our first great practical government is going to see how a great book, searching the heart of a nation, expressing and singing the men in it, governs a people.
As the successful author of a great book, as the woman of wit and reason, she had tended to repel that attention at the hand of the admiring male which such charm in woman as she might lay claim to invariably called for.
If I'd only stayed out in my little Wisconsin village, and gone hungry, and been unhappy, and waited, some day I might have written my great book!
So that oftentimes it falls out (which Callimachus taxed of old) a great book is a great mischief.
No answer came from the two complainants; and my father took up a great book.
My dear father, with such a wife you would never have lived eighteen years shivering on the edge of a Great Book!
He had written a great book in Lavengro, and the critics and the public refused to recognise that it was a great book.
If after ten or fifty years it still has power to quicken you, then for you at least it is a great book forever.
For there was never a great book or a great picture that was not in the best sense representative, that did not draw its greatness from the common ideals of the age in which it was produced.
Ay, the immortal soul breathes in a deed as in a great book.
And yet, there is not in all these that immortal intelligence, that living, palpitating soul, which you find in a great book.
A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great book" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
