 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 Bain - 1867 - 352 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 him... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1867 - 282 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... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1872 - 368 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...humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a cotemporary of all ages. — Sir J. Ilerschel. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's... | |
 | 1872 - 264 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...humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a cotemporary of all ages. — Sir J. Herschel. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 דפים
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands r with bin hacer eelf." FIFTHLY — As to lending and borrowing. — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 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 tonderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 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...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters Good books nourish the sou History maketh... | |
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