 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
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 376 стор.
...unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contaet with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, and the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a... | |
 | Readings - 1866 - 196 стор.
...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 contemporary of all ages. The... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 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...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... | |
 | Augusta Parker (hon.) - 1870 - 296 стор.
...for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail to make a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books." 'There are many pictures within the recess; one is a photograph of that beautiful painting by Murillo,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 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. The... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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. The... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 стор.
...as a taste, an instrument, end a mode of pleasurable gratifleatiou. Give a mau this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tonderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | 1872 - 368 стор.
...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...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... | |
 | 1872 - 264 стор.
...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...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 - 1872 - 786 стор.
...imagined ; and more efbands я mort perrera« selection of books. You place him In contact with the bent society In every period of history— with the wisest the wittiest— with the tcnderrst, and the purest characters ¿hat Ь-tve adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nation»—... | |
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