 | HORACE MANN - 1853
...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...against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the wbrid frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 288 páginas
...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... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 108 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853
...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.... | |
 | Daniel Smith - 1853 - 246 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 229 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1853 - 288 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1854
...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." —... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 104 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 776 páginas
..."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.... | |
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I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me,... 
