 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 743 páginas
...were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of cir•y* cumstances, 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 3140 páginas
...stead under every variety of circumstances, 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 3140 páginas
...enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old." — LEISH HIM. •• 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... | |
 | Eugene Field - 1899
...recall what Sir John Herschel (God rest his dear soul!) said and wrote: "Were I to pay for a taste that should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900
..."Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy." THE TASTE FOR READING 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. I speak of it, of course, only as a wordly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | 1900
...who said, with special reference to a proclivity for literary study : If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for this. Give a man [why only a man ?] this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly... | |
 | 1900
...Herschel, "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." It is not every one who could say with Gibbon that he would not exchange his love of reading for all... | |
 | 1900
...Herschel, "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." It is not every one who could say with Gibbon that he would not exchange his love of reading for all... | |
 | 1899
...forever!" Then he quotes Sir John Herschel, who said : " Were I to pay for a taste that should stand me under every variety of circumstances, 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 me.... | |
 | Godfrey Taubenhaus - 1900 - 106 páginas
...victory of man. "Were I to pray for a taste," says Sir John Hershel, "which should stand me instead under every variety of circumstances, 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... | |
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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,... 
