 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
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...office, and surer and stronger panoply of religious principle— 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... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 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... | |
 | George Ryan - 1855 - 210 pages
...there is not another work in the English language so well calculated to induce 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 one. You at once place him in contact with the wisest, the wittiest,— with the tenderest, bravest,... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1855 - 442 pages
...there is not another work in the English language so well calculated to induce 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 one. You at once place him in contact with the wisest, the wittiest,—with the tenderest, bravest,... | |
 | Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - 1855 - 344 pages
...there is not another work in the English language so well calculated to induce 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 one. You at once place him in contact with the wisest, the wittiest, — with the tenderest, bravest,... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1855 - 150 pages
...panoply of religious principles-^ but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratiJication. 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 a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - 470 pages
...principle*—but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man tha taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put mto his hands a most perverse selection of books. Yon place him... | |
 | Joachim Heinrich Campe - 1856 - 274 pages
...principles — but 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 making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
 | Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - 1856 - 368 pages
...knowledge and amusement, containing as they do Biographical Notices to induce a taste for reading. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fai3 :<' making him a happy one. Yon at once place him in contact with the wiaest. Lv... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1857 - 540 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. Yon place him in contact with the best society in every period... | |
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