 Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.  The Repository - Page 1481858Full view - About this book
 | 576 pages
...office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this...of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making ahappy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pages
...office and sure and stronger panoply of religions principles — but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this...him 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... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it,...him 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... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this...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... | |
 | 1838 - 272 pages
...office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this...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... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pages
...office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and n mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this...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... | |
 | 1840 - 504 pages
...advantage, and not iu the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles, but...man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of adding to his happiness; you make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...of religious principles ; but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying...him a happy 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... | |
 | 1859 - 880 pages
...higher office and sure and stronger panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this...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... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel, James Burton Robertson - 1846 - 544 pages
...its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...him 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... | |
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