 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 his hands a most perverse selection of books.  Papers and Proceedings - Сторінка 81автори: American Library Association. Conference - 1889Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
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...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...in contact with the best society in every period of liistory — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters... | |
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...unafTected benevolence, is another rule of greater importance than is easily imagined ; and more efhands a most perverse selection of books. You place him In contact with the nefct society in every p-'riod of history—with the wisest, the wittiest—with the tendeivst, an<l... | |
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...but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a cotemporary of all ages. The... | |
 | 1857 - 240 стор.
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail to make him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands...every period of history with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1857 - 540 стор.
...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 put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. Yon place him in contact with the best society in every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest,... | |
 | M. M. Bell - 1858 - 332 стор.
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. —... | |
 | D. Richmond - 1858 - 428 стор.
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Givo a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a coutcmporaiy of all ages. —... | |
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...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. —... | |
 | Mary Kirby, Elizabeth Kirby - 1858 - 232 стор.
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this tasto, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...in contact with the best society in every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest,—with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 стор.
...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 put into his hands...period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
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