 | 1834 - 652 σελίδες
...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....world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." (Penny Magazine, vol. ii. p. 375.) Gate-stoppers are frequently found great annoyances, both in the... | |
 | 1850 - 428 σελίδες
...circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against ull its ills however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. JAMES WATT. A VOIINO man (s.ij-s Sir R. Kane,) wanting to sell spectacles in London, petitions the... | |
 | 576 σελίδες
...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...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." This example of the blacksmith and his delighted auditory may, we think, furnish a hint for a plan... | |
 | 1834 - 648 σελίδες
...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,...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." (Penny Magazine, vol. ii. p. 375.) Gate-stoppers are frequently found great annoyances, both in the... | |
 | 1835 - 542 σελίδες
...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,...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 - 298 σελίδες
...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,...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 derogating from... | |
 | 1835 - 538 σελίδες
...happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things migkt go amiss, and the 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 derogating from... | |
 | 1838 - 274 σελίδες
...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,...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... | |
 | 1870 - 726 σελίδες
...circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against all its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. — Ilerschel. BEER IN BAVARIA. Besides the four elements known to us as such, namely, air, fire, earth,... | |
 | 1838 - 272 σελίδες
...source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however tilings might go amiss, and the 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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Were I 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 during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me,... 
