 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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." —... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 페이지
..."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 페이지
...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 페이지
...shows the honours it can confer : — • " If," says Sir John Herschel, " I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...a taste for reading — I speak of it, of course, not as superseding or derogating from the higher office, and surer and stronger panoply of religious... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1855 - 150 페이지
...Miscellaneous and Railway Literature, may also be obtained on application. " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a tcate for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree... | |
 | 1855 - 228 페이지
...popularity by the beauty and brilliancy of his style. 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 페이지
...nation, have heaped up for an exhaustless and imperishable store : — " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, nnd not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office and surer and stronger... | |
 | 1856 - 588 페이지
...perhaps from intemperance and vice!" — with Herschel, who writes, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading ;"—... | |
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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,... 
