 Give a man this taste, and the 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...  The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk - עמוד 80מאת Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 192 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 דפים
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a perverse selection of books. You place him in contact...society in every period of history, with the wisest and wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and purest characters who have adorned humanity; you... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 דפים
...panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 דפים
...gratifying it, and you can hardly foil of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 דפים
...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...period of history, with the wisest, the wittiest, with the teuderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 דפים
...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...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 322 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... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 132 דפים
...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...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 דפים
...unaffected benevolence, is another rule of greater importance than is easily imagined ; and more efhands a most perverse selection of books. You place him In contact with the best society fn every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tcndereat, and the purest... | |
 | 1855 - 228 דפים
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 דפים
...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...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
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