 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
 | Temple Scott - 1911 - 294 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 140 have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | 1907 - 156 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...and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. Vf <>u make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all Sir Arthur Helps.— Perhaps »he greatest... | |
 | 1912 - 414 דפים
...above the average tone of the reader's thought, and yet not beyond his grasp. 400 BOOKS AND READING wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. — HERSCHEL. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - 1913 - 244 דפים
...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...world has been created for him. — Sir John Herschel. 54 CHAPTER III INTELLECTUAL IDEALS As I look back over the various kinds of books I have read, and... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - 1913 - 244 דפים
...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...ages. The world has been created for him. — Sir John Herschet. CHAPTER III INTELLECTUAL IDEALS As I look back over the various kinds of books I have read,... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - 1913 - 248 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 history, with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | 1914 - 198 דפים
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 | American Academy of Medicine - 1907 - 552 דפים
...making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a perverse collection 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... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1916 - 244 דפים
...the Queensland Reader, No. VI :— (i) "Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages." — A Taste for Reading, (ii) "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to... | |
 | Braddock (Pa.). History Committee, George Harris Lamb - 1917 - 356 דפים
...and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy person. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of...the tenderest, the bravest and the purest characters which have adorned humanity." The Club joined the State Federation in 1899 and the National « Body... | |
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