 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
 | Norman Macleod - 1871 - 940 стор.
...inestimable advantages of a taste for reading good authors. "Give a man," he said, "this taste, and you place him in contact with the best society in...wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest of characters, who have adorned humanity ; you make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of... | |
 | Maria Jane M'Intosh - 1860 - 156 стор.
...the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you'pnt into his hands a most perverse selection of books....in contact with the best society in every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest,—with the teuderest, the bravest, and the purest characters... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1860 - 570 стор.
...making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, yon put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. Ton place him in contact with the best society in every...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... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1860 - 648 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. Tou place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 стор.
...but as a tasto, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Givo a man this tasto, and tho lm and sedate is not easily moved, even by a strong temptation. Lord Kaimet. GENIUS tho best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest,... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 стор.
...amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. 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 history—with the wisest, the wittiest—with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 стор.
...another rule of greater importance than is easily imagined ; and more eflunds a most perverse Bclection of books. You place him In contact with the best society In every period of history—with the wisest, the wittiest—with the tcnderest, and the purest characters Lhaf tavc adorned... | |
 | 1864 - 876 стор.
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 стор.
...unaffected benevolence, is another rule of greater importance than is easily imagined ; and more efhftnds a most perverse selection of books. You place him...history— with the wisest, the wittiest— with the Undercut, and the purest characters JiAt hnve adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1865 - 820 стор.
...go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would bo a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, and the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters which have adorned humanity.... | |
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