 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...virtue.2 His 1 "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...and be a 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... | |
 | Edward Walford - Latin language - 1854 - 132 pages
...stead under every variety of circumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things...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... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 794 pages
...me 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...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." —... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 pages
...History, Sporting, Useful and Miscellaneous Literature, may also be obtained on application. , " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...the civilized world shows the honours it can confer : — • " If," says Sir John Herschel, " I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1855 - 150 pages
...Sporting, Useful Miscellaneous and Railway Literature, may also be obtained on application. " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | 1856 - 588 pages
...listlessness and idleness, perhaps from intemperance and vice!" — with Herschel, who writes, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me,... | |
 | Joachim Heinrich Campe - Castaways - 1856 - 274 pages
...Sporting, Useful Miscellaneous and Railway Literature, may also be obtained on. application. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - American poetry - 1840 - 376 pages
...instead, 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...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." He who reads from habit is independent. The world without may exclude him from its glare, its fashion,... | |
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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 to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon... 
