 | 1850 - 428 pàgines
...circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against ull its ills however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. JAMES WATT. A VOIINO man (s.ij-s Sir R. Kane,) wanting to sell spectacles in London, petitions the... | |
 | 576 pàgines
...no one knew better how to body forth with a thousand life-like touches than the author of that work. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...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... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pàgines
...[Quarterly Keiieu.-, No. CIV.] TASTE FOR READING. IF I were to pray for a taste which should stand by me in stead under every variety of circumstances,...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... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pàgines
...happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things migkt go amiss, and the 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... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pàgines
...the tabernacle, and that no effort was made to introduce the process into Judea. TASTE FOR READING. IF I were to pray for a taste which should stand me...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... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pàgines
...that no effort was made to introduce the process into Judea. TASTE FOR READING. IF I were to pi-ay for a taste which should stand me in stead under every...however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon rae, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it, of course, only as a worldly advantage, and not... | |
 | 1870 - 726 pàgines
...circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against all its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. — Ilerschel. BEER IN BAVARIA. Besides the four elements known to us as such, namely, air, fire, earth,... | |
 | 1838 - 272 pàgines
...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 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 - 1840 - 392 pàgines
...student's home. Well saith Sir John Herschel, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand instead, under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a faste for reading." He who reads from habit is independent. The world without may exclude him from... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pàgines
...circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness through life, and shield against its many ills, however things might go amiss, and the 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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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 me,... 
