| Maria Jane M'Intosh - 1860 - 156 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...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... | |
| Friedrich Schiller - 1860 - 570 페이지
...<£ BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRAEY. SCHILLEK'S WOKKS. HISTORIOAL AND DRAMATIC. " 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... | |
| Hugh Blair Grigsby - 1860 - 128 페이지
...MAIN ST., (under Atlantic Hotel,] NORFOLK, VA. " If I were to pray for a taste which would stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and shield me against all its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 페이지
...If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me In stead under every variety of circunjstanees, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its UK however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be A TASTB roa HEADmo. I speak... | |
| 1895 - 642 페이지
...stead, under every variety of circumstance, 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 us, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you... | |
| 1889 - 590 페이지
...best society in every period of history." Another : ' ' Were I to pray for a taste which would stand 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 on me,... | |
| Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1890 - 690 페이지
...importance of libraries, by a quotation from Sir John Herschel, who said, " If I were to pray for a taste, which should stand me in stead under every variety...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." FREE LIBRARIES, 188T. LIBRARIES. VOLCMES. 93 177,560 Free public lending libraries 424 3,721 191 Free... | |
| Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 페이지
...best-informed men have talked and acted." And again : "If I were to pray for a taste which should stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, or a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 페이지
...we lose much more by our own ignorance. " If," says Sir John Herschel, " I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...however things might go amiss and the world frown upon 1 1 me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 페이지
...reconcile vice to modesty. ГНЕ LOVE OF READING. SIR JOHN HEESCIIEU " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety...however things might go amiss, and the world frown on me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldlv advantage, and not... | |
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