 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. "You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history; with...  The Ladies' Repository - Seite 3821864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 Seiten
...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. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 322 Seiten
...put into his hands a most perverse seleetion of books. You plaee him in eontaet with the best soeiety in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, nnd the purest eharaeters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a eontemporary... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 132 Seiten
...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. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 Seiten
...unaffected 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 best society fn every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tcndereat, and the purest... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 Seiten
...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. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 Seiten
...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. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1855 - 150 Seiten
...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. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | 1855 - 864 Seiten
...Franklin ? To say, therefore, that a man is the worse for having the capacity given him of placing himself in contact " with the best society in every period...wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, the purest, characters that have adorned humanity,"* is a dogma that we will not believe. We have little... | |
 | Joachim Heinrich Campe - 1856 - 274 Seiten
...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. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 Seiten
...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. You place him...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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