 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 Le Roy Stidger - 1922 - 208 דפים
...books, 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... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1923 - 648 דפים
...books], 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...denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. — Sir John Herschel If literature is a means for re-creating the past and creating our present and... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 584 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." Supposing a taste created for literature, and the resolve made to cultivate it and keep it pure, the... | |
 | 1928 - 366 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 that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The... | |
 | George S. Jackson, Jacks - 1993 - 340 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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 488 דפים
...transcribing. Speaking of the advantages of a taste for reading, he says : "Give a man this, and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, wittiest, tenderest, bravest, and purest of characters who have adorned humanity ; you m;.ke him a... | |
 | American Library Association. Conference - 1881 - 774 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... | |
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