 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1030 pages
...which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old." — LKIGH HUNT. " Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in...however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon ine, it would be A TASTE FOR READING. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - Fables - 1859 - 322 pages
...broken heart. ^ VALUE OF A LITERAEY TASTE. THE great astronomer, Sir John Herschel, says, " Were 1 to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...to me during life, and a shield against its ills, howevei things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1028 pages
...which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old." — LEIGH HUNT. " j- M# ߢֵ}%% V=B < 0IhU T d R %9 ") : ' ... S_ +H+Z N WxӞcor]n_ X 'Ҟ 6+p > a W wb+ W » shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 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 E lace him in contact with the best society in every period of istory — with the wisest, and... | |
 | Business - 1859 - 188 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. I speak of it, of course, only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | Maria Jane M'Intosh - 1860 - 156 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 tilings might go amiss, and the world frown upon... | |
 | Friedrich Gerstäcker - California - 1860 - 376 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...virtue.2 His 1 "Dissenters" had not the privilege of Oxford and Cambridge Universities 2 "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... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...which Literature creates. Herschel refers to this in a most touching manner. He says : " 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... | |
 | Readings - Business - 1866 - 196 pages
...instead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheei fulness tome 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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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... 
