 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
 | 1855
...Franklin ? To say, therefore, that a man is the worse for having the capacity given him of placing himself in contact " with the best society in every period...wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, the purest, characters that have adorned humanity,"* is a dogma that we will not believe. We have little... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 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 history — with the wisest, the wittiest, — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 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 history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 352 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... | |
 | George Ryan - 1855 - 176 דפים
...contact with the wisest, the wittiest,— with the 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... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1855
...contact with the wisest, the wittiest,—with the 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... | |
 | Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - 1855 - 259 דפים
...wittiest, — with the tenderest, bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. Yon 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 dvilire* the conduct... | |
 | Joachim Heinrich Campe - 1856 - 240 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... | |
 | Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - 1856 - 259 דפים
...the wiaest. Lv wittiest, — with the fenderest, bravest, and the purest characters that hare adornH humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ag«s. I' cannot, in short, be better summed up than in the words of the poet, — " It eirilira the... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1857
...selection of books. Yon place him in contact with the best society in every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest,...contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him."—SIR JOHN HEESOHEI. Address on tke Opening of the Eton LiIrary, 1833. .' [. :'«,,». THE WORKS... | |
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