 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
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 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 in contact with tho best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest,... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 דפים
...another rule of greater importance than is easily imagined ; and more eflunds a most perverse Bclection of books. You place him In contact with the best society In every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest—with the tcnderest, and the purest characters Lhaf tavc adorned... | |
 | 1864 - 876 דפים
...so live that we may at last share thy perennial blessedness, and wear thy unfading crowns forever! WERE I to pray for a taste which should stand me in...humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a cotemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. — Sir John Herschel. 372 THE EDITOR'S... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 דפים
...unaffected benevolence, is another rule of greater importance than is easily imagined ; and more efhftnds a most perverse selection of books. You place him...period of history— with the wisest, the wittiest— with the Undercut, and the purest characters JiAt hnve adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 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...period of history, with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1865 - 820 דפים
...go amiss, and 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Readings - 1866 - 196 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 him... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 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 contemporary11 of all ages. The world has been created for him. — Sir John Herschel. 5. THE HABIT... | |
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