 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1852 - 500 pages
...TASTE FOR READING. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Sir J. Herschell. AN OLD SONG. "The following song," says Miss Mitford, in her recent volume entitled... | |
 | Rev. Daniel Smith - Conduct of life - 1852 - 278 pages
...stead, under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...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 foil of making him a happy... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstance-;, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me...however things might go amiss, and the world frown on me — it would be a taste for reading." SIB JOHN HsRacasr.. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS.... | |
 | Horace Mann - History - 1853 - 576 pages
...world, says, " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead, under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness...against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the wbrid frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading." Yet it is now proposed to colonize the broad... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Domestic relations - 1853 - 334 pages
...under every variety of circumcumstance, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...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 making him a happy... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...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 making him a happy... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 pages
...subscribers to the Windsor and Eton Public Library, " which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness...through life, and a shield against its ills, however thing s might go amiss, and the world frown upen me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Domestic relations - 1853 - 322 pages
...under every variety of eireumeumstanee, and be a souree of happiness and eheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things...might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would bs a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, nnd you ean hardly fail... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 794 pages
...of congenial spirits. If I were to pray for a taste which would stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. fbt " Mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred." —... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 pages
...in steed under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to him through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon him, it would be a tasti for good and useful reading. " Gire a man," he affirms, " this taste, and... | |
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If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon... 
