 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...  Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners - Página 81editado por - 1853 - 229 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 páginas
...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...wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest character! who have adorned humanity. You make him a deniien of all nations, a contemporary of all... | |
 | 1859 - 188 páginas
...history—with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all...contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 páginas
...through the chocks.H When he rose to the surface again, we hauled up, and You place him in contact with history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest,...bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humauity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary1' of all ages. The world has been created... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 páginas
...with the wisest, and the wittiest, with the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters which have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations— a contemporary of all ages. This world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but that his character should take a higher... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 páginas
...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 of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1860 - 570 páginas
...happy man ; unless, indeed, yon put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. Ton place him in contact with the best society in every period of...of all ages. The world has been created for him." — Sis JOHN HERSOHEL. Address on the Opening of the Eton Library, 1833. ' / J THE WORKS FREDERlCK... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1871 - 940 páginas
...advantages of a taste for reading good authors. "Give a man," he said, "this taste, and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history, with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest of characters, who have adorned humanity ; you make... | |
 | Friedrich Gerstäcker - 1860 - 376 páginas
...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 wisest, the wittiest, — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...importance than is easily imagined ; and more efhands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
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