| 1848 - 542 páginas
...and religion.— Assize Sermon at Cambridge, by the Rev. Harvey Goodwin* WEJIE 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... | |
| Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 páginas
...pray for . taste, says Herschell, which should stand me in stead, under every variety of circumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...against its ills — however things might go amiss, and tho world frown upon me — it would be a taste for reading. • I speak of it, of course, only us... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 430 páginas
...stand by us under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happinessand cheerfulness tous through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go, it would be for that of reading, the most lasting and agreeable of all enjoyments which this world... | |
| 1850 - 446 páginas
...their thoughts and desires. E. READING. " IF," says Sir John Herschel, " I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...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 least degree as superseding the... | |
| 1850 - 458 páginas
...stead under every variety of circumstance, 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... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 páginas
...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... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 páginas
...taste," says Sir John Herschell, " which would stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...life, and a shield against its ills, however things may go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it, of course,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...is called the best society in the place where I live." — Channing. " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." — Sir John Herschell. BUT what strange art, what magic can dispose The troubled mind to change its... | |
| Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 páginas
...learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead, under every variety...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad regions of the west with millions of our fellow-beings,... | |
| Horace Mann - 1851 - 626 páginas
...learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead, under every variety...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad regions of the west with millions of our fellow-beings,... | |
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