 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,...  Papers and Proceedings - Сторінка 81автори: American Library Association. Conference - 1889Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 стор.
...of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things may go amiss, and the 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 superceding... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 стор.
...man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live." — Channing. " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." — Sir John Herschell. BUT what strange art, what magic can dispose The troubled mind to change its... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 626 стор.
...knowledge, surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad regions of the west with millions of our fellow-beings,... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 стор.
...knowledge, surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad regions of the west with millions of our fellow-beings,... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 стор.
...knowledge, surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...however things might go amiss, and the world frown 62 upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad regions... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 стор.
...Eton Mechanics' Institute, once said, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand by me instead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...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... | |
 | 1852 - 508 стор.
...but that they were richly deserved." * Sparks' Washington, vol. 2nd, page 365. A TASTE FOR READING. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Sir J. Herschell. AN OLD SONG. "The following song," says Miss Mitford, in her recent volume entitled... | |
 | 1852 - 508 стор.
...but that they were richly deserved." * Sparks' Washington, vol. 2nd, page 365. A TASTE FOR READING. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Sir J. Herschell, AN OLD SONG. "The following song," says Miss Mitford, in her recent volume entitled... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 стор.
...but that they were richly deserved." * Sparks' Washington, vol. 2nd, page 3C5. A TASTE FOR READING. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Sir J. Herschell. AN OLD SONG. "The following song," says Miss Mitford, in her recent volume entitled... | |
 | 1852 - 844 стор.
...something he can enjoy while absent, and look forward to with pleasure. If I were to pray for a taste that should stand me in stead, under every variety of circumstances,...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." To the same import are the remarks of Macaulay, the historian : " There is, I may well say, no wealth,... | |
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