 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...especially of our own nation, have heaped up for an exhaustless and imperishable store : — " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | 1848 - 542 pages
...disciplined in morality and religion.— Assize Sermon at Cambridge, by the Rev. Harvey Goodwin* WEJIE I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would he a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1848 - 76 pages
...surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says : " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead,...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... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1848 - 68 pages
...surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says : " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead,...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... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...should, under every variety of circumstances, be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, anil not in the slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | 1850 - 446 pages
...suits the state of their thoughts and desires. E. READING. " IF," says Sir John Herschel, " I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live." — Channing. " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 pages
...surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead,...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... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 626 pages
...surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead,...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... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 592 pages
...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...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad regions of the west with millions of our fellow-beings,... | |
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If 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... 
