 | 576 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable 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 perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
 | Periodicals - 1838 - 274 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable 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 a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
 | Periodicals - 1838 - 272 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable 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 a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
 | 1840 - 504 pages
...panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of adding to his happiness; you make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...of religious principles ; but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying...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
...panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - Discoveries in science - 1846 - 602 pages
...during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.... "..Give a man...books. You place him in contact with the best society I in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...of religious principles ; but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying...books. You place him in contact with the best society of every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1846 - 554 pages
...during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading Give a man this taste,...him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his bands i most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the beat society in every period... | |
 | Friedrich Carl W. von Schlegel - 1846 - 560 pages
...and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would he a taste for reading Give a man this taste, and the...making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into liis hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the hest society in every... | |
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