 MIGHT I give counsel to any young hearer I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters; in books and life that is the most wholesome society ; learn to admire rightly, the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admire;...  The Indiana School Journal - Page 4621876Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...home now and talk with St. John; you may take a volume from your library and listen to Swift and Pope. Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would...pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things : narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. I know nothing... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...home now and talk with St. John; you may take a volume from your library and listen to Swift and Pope. Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would...pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship smiling at our past follies,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 314 pages
...now and talk with St. John ; you may take a volume from your library and listen to Swift and Pope. Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would...pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired ; they admired great things : narrow^pirits admire basely, and worship meanly. I know nothing... | |
 | Mary Greene Chandler Ware - Character - 1854 - 254 pages
...vulgar in speech, and he who is meek and loving in spirit can never be rude in manner. COMPANIONSHIP. "Try to frequent the company of your betters : in...pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly." — THACKERAY.... | |
 | Universalism - 1855 - 446 pages
...which we are honored in bestowing upon them; for the counsel of Thackeray is wise, where he says: •" Try to frequent the company of your betters ; in books...that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly—the great pleasure of life is that." 5 gays Bishop Taylor,—" Nature hath made friendships... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 420 pages
...repay you in after life with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. — WE Gladstone. Try to frequent the company of your betters. In books...rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. ---... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...He who reads these noble records of a past age salutes and reverences the great spirits who adorn it Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would...pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things : narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. DR. ARNOLD'S... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...reads those noble records of a past age salutes and reverences the great spirits who adorn it. ... Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would...pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. THACKERAY, "... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...carry it off, and then went to the shop and bought a beef-steak. MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES. OUR BETTERS. Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would...company of your betters. In books and life, that is the moat wholesome society. Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note •what the... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 pages
...pride.—Spectator. 2. How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away.—Gay. 3. Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would...him, try to frequent the company of your betters.— Thackeray. 4. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.—Shakespeare. 5. Could those few pleasant... | |
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