 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 páginas
...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...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading — I speak of it, of course, not as superseding or derogating from the higher office, and surer and... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 páginas
...and Miscellaneous Literature, may also be obtained on application. , " 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. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1855 - 150 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joachim Heinrich Campe - 1856 - 274 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 páginas
...imperishable store: — " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every Yariety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and...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... | |
 | 1856 - 588 páginas
...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 ;"—... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - 470 páginas
...in stead tmder every variety of circumstances, and he a source of happiness and cheerfulness to mo through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and th* world frown npon me, it would he a taste for reading:. I speak ot it of course only aa a worldly... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...is called the hest society in the place where I live."— Charming. " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and he a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 páginas
...TASTE FOR READING. IF 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...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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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,... 
