 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
 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 288 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." Happy family is that which has a taste for reading ! Promising children are those who love to read... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe - 1853
...contact with the wisest, the wittiest, — with the i tenderest, bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. It cannot, in short, be better summed ' up than in the words of the poet, " It civilizes the conduct... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 108 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 that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 598 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 that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853
...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 teuderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1853 - 288 דפים
...put into his hands a most perverse seleetion of books. You plaee him in eontaet with the best soeiety in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, nnd the purest eharaeters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a eontemporary... | |
 | Daniel Smith - 1853 - 246 דפים
...history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a conteniporary of all ages. The world has been created for him." Burton, the author of that most curious... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 776 דפים
...of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tcndereat, and the purest characters chat have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all...contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It Is hardly possible but the character should tjike a higher and better tone from the constant habit... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 104 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... | |
 | 1855
...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...humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a cotemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. — Sir John Herschel. THE THOUGHTS OF... | |
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