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" Learning, if she has a real taste for it, will not only make her contented, but happy in it. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. "
The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 - Page 205
by Myra Reynolds - 1920 - 489 pages
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 7-8

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1808 - 918 pages
...never appear; and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement, to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real taste for it, will not...entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure to lasting. She will not want new fashions, nor regret the loss of expensive diversions, or variety...
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The ruminator, a series of moral, critical and sentimental essays, Volume 1

sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pages
...never appear : and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement, to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real taste for it, will not...if she can be amused with an author in her closet." I am well aware that a rigid censor may blame this view of things exhibited by Lady Mary as too limited,...
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The Ruminator: Containing a Series of Moral, Critical, and ..., Volume 1

Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1813 - 332 pages
...never appear: and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement, to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real taste for it, will not...if she can be amused with an author in her closet." I am well aware that a rigid censor may blame this view of things exhibited by Lady Mary as too limited,...
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The British Prose Writers: Lady M.W. Montagu's Letters from France and Italy

British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is destined. Learning, if she has a real laste for it, will not only make her contented, but happy...or variety of company, if she can be amused with an anthor in her closet. To render this amusement complete, she should be permitted to learn the languages....
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...th ; sanl^ titnj incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is deemed. Learning, if shj haa + pleasures во lasting. She- will uot waat n;w fashions, nor regret the loss of expensive diversions,...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 13

Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...judgment that does not presently see to which side in this case the preference is to be given. — LOCKE. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — LADY MW MONTAGUE. WE are led to the belief of a future state, not only by the weaknesses, by the...
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The Malta penny magazine

536 pages
...hasten there, To sound our harps by the sapphire sea Of our Father's home, in eternity! MARV ELIZABETH. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady MW Montag»The MALTA PENNY MAGAZINS is published and sent to subscribers, in Valletta, every...
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The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the ..., Volume 1

John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...venture on a new dividend, and think it best to sit down with their own. — Socrates. Reading. — No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady MW Montague. Prejudices and Habits. — The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are...
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Materials for thinking extracted from the works of the learned of all ages

Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...venture on anew dividend, and think it best to sit down with their own. — Socrates. Reading. — No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady MW Montague. Prejudices and Habits. — The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 6

Periodicals - 1847 - 724 pages
...any door I knock, And house with Montaigne now, or now with Locke." POPE'S IMITATIONS OF HORACE. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." LADY MW MONTAGUE. "Come with me to our town, where I can furnish you with more than three hundred books...
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