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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes... - Page 82
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 764 pages
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Pencilled Passages

Literature - 1857 - 240 pages
...stand by me under every variety of circumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness 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 superseding...
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Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of ...

Wisconsin. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1858 - 866 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...be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, and...
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Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and ...

Education - 1858 - 878 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...be a taste for reading. Give a man this tas-te, and you place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, and...
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The young artists: the sculptor, the engraver, the musician, the engraver ...

Young artists - 1858 - 490 pages
...stead under every variety ot 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...
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Eda Morton and her cousins, or, School-room days [by L.M.M. Bell].

M. M. Bell - Cousins - 1858 - 332 pages
...stead under every variety ot 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 ot course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding...
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The Bundle of Sticks; Or, Love and Hate

Mary Kirby, Elizabeth Kirby - 1858 - 232 pages
...stead under every variety ot 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 us a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding...
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The four sisters: Patience, Humility, Hope and Love, by the ..., Volume 355

D. Richmond - 1858 - 428 pages
...stead under every variety ot 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...
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The Repository, Volume 1

New London (Conn.) - 1858 - 442 pages
...in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness 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 derogating from...
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Self-formation: Twelve Chapters for Young Thinkers

Edwin Paxton Hood - Self-culture - 1858 - 276 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. I speak of it, of course, only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree derogating from...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 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...amiss, and the world frown upon me. It would be A TASTK poa aaAD* me. I speak of it only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding...
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