| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 páginas
...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. I speak of it, of course, only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree derogating from... | |
| Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 páginas
...my love of reading, I would spurn them all." "Were I to pray for a taste," says Sir John Herschel, " which should stand me in stead, under every variety...and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly foil of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of... | |
| William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 páginas
...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 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... | |
| 1852 - 508 páginas
...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 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... | |
| 1852 - 508 páginas
...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 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... | |
| 1852 - 844 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| 1855 - 436 páginas
...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. > SIB J. HEBSCHELL. SOCIETY o» WOMEN. — There is no society in the world more profitable, because... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 páginas
...time, to be cautious how he denies and desecrates that inward and most glorious of temples.1 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... | |
| Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 páginas
...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...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 superseding... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1853 - 322 páginas
...stand me instead under every variety of eireumeumstanee, and be a souree of happiness and eheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills,...might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would bs a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, nnd you ean hardly fail... | |
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