 | Mary Augusta Laselle - 1918 - 410 páginas
...but we lose much more by our own ignorance. "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 worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | Sidney Augustus Bull - 1920 - 470 páginas
...institution is infinite." "Sir John Herschel said, 'If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him happy. You make him a denizen of... | |
 | 1923 - 750 páginas
...world's greatest scientists says of books. "If I were to pray for a taste that would stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be...to me through life and a shield against its ills, it would be a taste for reading." But I feel quite sure that this audience needs no more, or greater... | |
 | Theodore Wesley Koch - 1926 - 210 páginas
...it is, however, another to use it wisely. "If," said 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 slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 584 páginas
...John Herschel said, to quote a well-known saying of a well-known man: " 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... | |
 | 1928 - 366 páginas
...Box 1367, El Paso, Tex. PRIVATE BOOK COLLECTORS Arranged by "Hobbies" 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... | |
 | 1854 - 694 páginas
...Sin John Herschcl has declared that " if he were to pray for a taste which should stand him in steail 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... | |
 | American Library Association. Conference - 1881 - 774 páginas
...occasion of opening a public library for their use in 1839, said: — " If I were to pray for a taste, which should stand me in stead under every variety...be a taste for reading. " Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1896 - 50 páginas
...we lose much more by our own ignorance. "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 slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | William Cooper Nell - 2002 - 772 páginas
...for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance, and be a source of cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and frown upon me it would be a taste for reading." How many hours are thrown away that might be most profitably... | |
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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,... 
