 | 576 σελίδες
...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 ahappy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
 | 1835 - 542 σελίδες
...— but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly...wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary... | |
 | 1835 - 298 σελίδες
...— 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...history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | 1838 - 544 σελίδες
...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...history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | 1838 - 272 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 274 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 300 σελίδες
...happy man ; unless, indeed, a most perverse selection of books is put into his hands. He is placed in contact with the best society, in every period...wisest, the wittiest ; with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest, characters, which have adorned humanity. It is hardly possible, but that his character... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 σελίδες
...; but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly...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 of history... | |
 | 1859 - 880 σελίδες
...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...him a happy man, 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... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 578 σελίδες
...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 it, and you can hardly...period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
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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. 
