| Liczba stron: 576
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making ahappy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — witli the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
| 1835 - Liczba stron: 542
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
| 1838 - Liczba stron: 544
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
| 1838 - Liczba stron: 274
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - Liczba stron: 300
...happy man ; unless, indeed, a most perverse selection of books is put into his hands. He is placed 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, which have adorned humanity. It is hardly... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - Liczba stron: 324
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most preverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society of every period of history... | |
| 1859 - Liczba stron: 886
...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...him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period... | |
| Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1846 - Liczba stron: 606
...me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless,...of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - Liczba stron: 340
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...books. You place him in contact with the best society of every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest... | |
| Johann Beckmann - 1846 - Liczba stron: 602
...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...books. You place him in contact with the best society I in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the... | |
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