 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 334 pages
...under every variety of circumcumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...be a taste for reading. 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... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 pages
...said Sir John Herschell in 1833, addressing the subscribers to the Windsor and Eton Public Library, " which should stand me in stead under every variety...through life, and a shield against its ills, however thing s might go amiss, and the world frown upen me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance-;, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...however things might go amiss, and the world frown on me — it would be a taste for reading." SIB JOHN HsRacasr.. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS.... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pages
...so great a gentleman." — Coleridge's Table-Talk. A LOVE OF LITERATURE. Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 322 pages
...under every variety of eireumeumstanee, and be a souree of happiness and eheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...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... | |
 | 1854 - 794 pages
...denied the companionship of congenial spirits. If I were to pray for a taste which would stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. fbt " Mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred." —... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 132 pages
...XIV. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
..."DlSBentrrs" had not the privilege of Oxford and Cambridge Universities 3 "It I were to pray for a taste, which should stand me In stead under every variety...source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through lift1, and a shield against It* Ills, however things might go amiss, and (lie world frown upon me.... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 pages
...SIR JOHN HERSCHEL has declared, that if he were to ask for a taste which should stand him in steed under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to him through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 pages
...and Miscellaneous Literature, may also be obtained on application. , " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every Variety...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... | |
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I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in 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 might go amiss and the world frown upon me,... 
