Examples
“In a copy of Owen Feltham's “Resolves”: ” “The Bible excepted, I consider Owen Feltham's 'Resolves' and Boyle's 'Occasional Reflections' to be two as good books as were ever usher'd into the world, with a view to direct the heart and keep it in its right place; consequently, to render us happy in this life and lay a reasonable foundation for the salvation of our souls through Jesus Christ our only Mediator and Redeemer.”
“Page 94 awfully good books one named Forty Acres and A Mule, I believe, and he was a professor at Vanderbilt University or had been or got to be.”
“As to the department of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, we would suggest that for admission to its teachings, pupils be required to possess a general elementary knowledge of the objects and subjects of Chemistry, such as may be obtained from some one of the many good books now published, or better still such”
Letter from Charles Phillips and Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to David L. Swain, October 13, 1853
““I may be driven,” he says in the end, “to curl up this gliding prose into a rough Sotadic, that shall rime him into such a condition as, instead of judging good books to be burnt by the executioner, he shall be readier to be his own hangman.”
“There runs through these comments and discursions the conviction — or is it the instinct? — that good books are desirable and that good writers, even if they show every variety of human depravity, are still good human beings.”
“This book, "Essays and Reviews," I have, but pray send your copy also; also any good books that may be produced bearing on that great question of the Atonement, and on Inspiration, Authority of Scripture, How sad it is to see that spirit of intellectualism thinking to deal with religion in forgetfulness of the necessary conditions of humility and faith!”
“Society of St. Michael for the distribution of good books and employed the leisure moments of his last years in the composition of several works and in the revision of his "Retraites a Notre-Dame", which he published in six volumes.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Hebrew, I have many good books on both Old and New Testaments,”
“Sir Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, bequeathed a volume of sermons in 1427.7.28 Later Dr. Thomas Lane gave some good books (1450).”
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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