 | 1859 - 880 oldal
...me 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...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 derogating from... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 626 oldal
...stead of every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.' Read the foregoing to your neighbor and friend : and cause him to become, like yourself, a reader and... | |
 | 1844 - 398 oldal
...every variety of eireumstanees, and be a souree of happiness and eheerfulness to me through life, and shield against its ills, however things might go amiss,...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. — Sir J. HerseheL I AM. WHO ever eoneeived a more beautiful illustration of this sublime text than... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 oldal
...Volumes have not only been read, but written in flying journeys. — Channing. (256.) 7. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1846 - 606 oldal
...Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and he a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during...man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1846 - 578 oldal
... : BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY. SCHILLER'S HISTORICAL .WORKS. " Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in...and a shield against its ills, however things might gb amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading Give a man this taste, and the... | |
 | Friedrich Carl W. von Schlegel - 1846 - 560 oldal
...Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and he a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during...might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would he a taste for reading Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 556 oldal
...INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, AND ORIGINS. " Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under ererj •variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness...a shield against its ills, however things might go amist and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading Give a man this taste, and the means... | |
 | 1846 - 544 oldal
...instead, 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...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." The cordial welcome with which his former Works have been received, and their widely-extended popularity,... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1847 - 582 oldal
...to be taken from the Building BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARYTHE LIFE LORENZO DE' MEDICI, THE MAGNIFICENT. " Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in...might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would he a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail... | |
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If 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... 
