 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Education - 1887 - 286 pages
...Chrusostomos. ARNOLD GREEN. THE love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. EDUCATION LIFE-LONG. EDWARD GIBBON. IT is an error to suppose that a course of study is confined to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure, and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1896 - 540 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure, and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - Culture - 1897 - 252 pages
...deserving men? "The love of study," says Gibbon, " a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure." If conversation lag I find my friend is dull ; but if I take up a book which I know to be full of inspiration... | |
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The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. 
