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| 576 pages
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making ahappy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — witli the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
| 1835 - 542 pages
...gratification. Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his...period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
| 1838 - 544 pages
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
| Periodicals - 1838 - 274 pages
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - Education - 1840 - 300 pages
...happy man ; unless, indeed, a most perverse selection of books is put into his hands. He is placed in contact with the best society, in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest ; with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest, characters, which have adorned humanity. It is hardly... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most preverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society of every period of history... | |
| Theology - 1859 - 880 pages
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him...period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, and the tenderesl, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a... | |
| Friedrich Schiller - Netherlands - 1846 - 578 pages
...for reading Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world... | |
| Friedrich von Schlegel, James Burton Robertson - History - 1846 - 544 pages
...for reading Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world... | |
| Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1846 - 538 pages
...for reading Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world... | |
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