 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
 | Annie H. Ryder - 1886 - 200 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...world has been created for him. SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. 17. Much must be borne which it is hard to bear, Much given away which it were sweet to keep. God help... | |
 | 1892 - 652 דפים
...society in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You...of all ages. The world has been created for him." So says Sir John Herschel ; and History is the study that opens to man's hungry brain more books, and... | |
 | Annie H. Ryder - 1886 - 200 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...wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest char acters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all... | |
 | John Thomas Dale - 1887 - 650 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!" Goldsmith said: " The first time I read an excellent book, it is just to me as if I' had gained a new... | |
 | Melvil Dewey - 1886 - 324 דפים
...books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters...adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, acotemporary of all ages." And how happily does William Ellery Channing express his appreciation :... | |
 | Melvil Dewey - 1886 - 324 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 tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | 1888 - 102 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...adorned humanity. " You make him a denizen of all nations—a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. Nothing can supply the place... | |
 | 1895 - 642 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...— with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, thj bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all sections,... | |
 | Missouri State Medical Association - 1889 - 1078 דפים
...history, with the wisest and wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest and the purest characters who adorn humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages." The constant prayer, the unceasing aspiration of the physician, should be in the dying words of Germany's... | |
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