 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 in contact with the best society in every period of history...  The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk - Pàgina 80per Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 192 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
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...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...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — witli the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pàgines
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...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 - 274 pàgines
...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...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 - 1840 - 300 pàgines
...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 - 1843 - 324 pàgines
...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 — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest... | |
 | 1859 - 880 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1846 - 606 pàgines
...gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pàgines
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of 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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 pàgines
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy marr, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of 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... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 602 pàgines
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most ' ' perverse selection of 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... | |
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