 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
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 דפים
...may appropriately be placed here before young minds : — " Give a man this taste, and 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 of characters who have adorned humanity ; you make... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, Richard McAllister Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1879 - 642 דפים
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 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 דפים
...happy man, unless, in. deed, 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 that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Richard M. Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 662 דפים
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 | 1892 - 724 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...wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary... | |
 | John Lubbock - 1894 - 336 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...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters which have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 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." But we must bear in mind, while we subscribe to the dictum of Carlyle, " Of all things which men do... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1895 - 620 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...denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. Tbe world has been created for him." — SIR Jouj HERSCBEL. Addrtu on the Opening of the Eton Library,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 דפים
...selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest,...of all ages. The world has been created for him." But we must bear in mind, while we subscribe to the dictum of Carlyle, " Of all things which men do... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1895 - 200 דפים
...silks, satins, and jewels. Said Sir John Herschel of a person in the company of books : " You place him in contact with the best society in every period of...the purest characters who have adorned humanity." Sir William Waller remarked : " In my study I am sure to converse with none but wise men, but abroad... | |
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