 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 Seiten
...Eton Mechanics' Institute, once said, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand by me instead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...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... | |
 | 1852 - 508 Seiten
...but that they were richly deserved." * Sparks' Washington, vol. 2nd, page 365. A TASTE FOR READING. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Sir J. Herschell, AN OLD SONG. "The following song," says Miss Mitford, in her recent volume entitled... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 Seiten
...but that they were richly deserved." * Sparks' Washington, vol. 2nd, page 3C5. A TASTE FOR READING. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Sir J. Herschell. AN OLD SONG. "The following song," says Miss Mitford, in her recent volume entitled... | |
 | 1852 - 508 Seiten
...but that they were richly deserved." * Sparks' Washington, vol. 2nd, page 365. A TASTE FOR READING. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Sir J. Herschell. AN OLD SONG. "The following song," says Miss Mitford, in her recent volume entitled... | |
 | 1852 - 844 Seiten
...something he can enjoy while absent, and look forward to with pleasure. If I were to pray for a taste that should stand me in stead, under every variety of circumstances,...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." To the same import are the remarks of Macaulay, the historian : " There is, I may well say, no wealth,... | |
 | 1855 - 436 Seiten
...absent and look forward to with pleasure. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me instead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. > SIB J. HEBSCHELL. SOCIETY o» WOMEN. — There is no society in the world more profitable, because... | |
 | Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 Seiten
...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...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 foil of making him a happy... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1853 - 576 Seiten
...knowledge, surrounded by the most learned society in the most cultivated metropolis in the world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the wbrid frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 Seiten
...If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance-;, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...however things might go amiss, and the world frown on me — it would be a taste for reading." SIB JOHN HsRacasr.. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1853 - 334 Seiten
...under every variety of circumcumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...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 fail of making him a happy... | |
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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,... 
