 | 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
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of...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
...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...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... | |
 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - Indian literature - 1846 - 606 pages
...me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless,...of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - Discoveries in science - 1846 - 602 pages
...and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.... "..Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail 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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail 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... | |
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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 perverse selection of books. 
