...under every variety of circumcumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you...

...said Sir John Herschell in 1833, addressing the subscribers to the Windsor and Eton Public Library, " which should stand me in stead under every variety...through life, and a shield against its ills, however thing s might go amiss, and the world frown upen me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it,...

...If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance-;, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...however things might go amiss, and the world frown on me — it would be a taste for reading." SIB JOHN HsRacasr.. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS....

...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." "Were I to pray for a taste," says Sir Jolm Herschel, " which should stand me in stead, under...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon...

...so great a gentleman." — Coleridge's Table-Talk. A LOVE OF LITERATURE. Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon...

...under every variety of eireumeumstanee, and be a souree of happiness and eheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would bs a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, nnd you ean hardly fail...

...denied the companionship of congenial spirits. If I were to pray for a taste which would stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. fbt " Mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred." —...

...XIV. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it, of course, only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding...

..."DlSBentrrs" had not the privilege of Oxford and Cambridge Universities 3 "It I were to pray for a taste, which should stand me In stead under every variety...source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through lift1, and a shield against It* Ills, however things might go amiss, and (lie world frown upon me....

...SIR JOHN HERSCHEL has declared, that if he were to ask for a taste which should stand him in steed under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to him through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown...