 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
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 376 דפים
...unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contaet with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, and the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1865 - 820 דפים
...the world frown upon me, it would bo a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, and the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters which have adorned humanity.... | |
 | Readings - 1866 - 196 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 him... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 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...humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary11 of all ages. The world has been created for him. — Sir John Herschel. 5. THE HABIT... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 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 who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1867 - 282 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 him... | |
 | 1868 - 504 דפים
...the best of society in every period of history ; with the wisest and wittiest, with the tenderest and bravest and the purest characters who have adorned...contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 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... | |
 | 1868 - 604 דפים
...the best of society in every period of history ; with the wisest and wittiest, with the tenderest and the bravest and the purest characters who have adorned humanity; you make him a deni/.en of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world, has been created for him. It is hardly... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 דפים
...fail of making him happy. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. While reading pleases, but no... | |
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