 Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history; with...  Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners - עמוד 81נערך על ידי - 1853 - 229 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Andrew James Symington - 1884 - 154 דפים
...happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of...of all ages. The world has been created for him." 62 Coleridge, speaking of the different kinds of readers, says : — 'Some readers are like the hour-glass... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 דפים
...happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 דפים
...happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest— with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel, James Burton Robertson - 1885 - 554 דפים
...happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of...of all ages. The world has been created for him." — SIE JOHN HEKSCHEL. Addresi on the opening of the Eton Library, 1833. • V * ••'.'. : > ' »... | |
 | Edward Bellasis, Notes - 1885 - 232 דפים
...taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man .... You place him in contact with the best society in every period of...humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a cotemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him." Nothing that I could say would be so... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 דפים
...most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact u'ith the best society of every period, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the...of all ages. The world has been created for him." — SIB JOHN HERSCHEL. COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR, & CO. printeS bB 1Um. Hvison PREFACE.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 דפים
...in contact u-ith the best society of every period, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the teuderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned...The world has been created for him." — SIR JOHN HERSCIIEL. COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR, & CO. printefc h>? TJClm. Ivison Hew Borfc,... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1885 - 64 דפים
...most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period in history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest,...characters, who have adorned humanity. You make him n denizen of all countries, a contemporary of all ages." — Sir J. Herschel. "Employ your time in... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 דפים
...happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderes!, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1885 - 502 דפים
...have already quoted to be verified ; that you will be placed " in contact with the best society, . . . with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the...and the purest characters who have adorned humanity " ; that each of you will be made "a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages." A plan is,... | |
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