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" ... the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. "
Self-education - Page 74
by Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851
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The Printing machine (or, Companion to the library) [ed. by J.H.L. Hunt].

576 pages
...gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making ahappy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — witli the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 6

1835 - 298 pages
...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. You place him...history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen...
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The Teacher's Manual: Being an Exposition of an Efficient and Economical ...

Thomas H. Palmer - 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...tenderest, the bravest, and the purest, characters, which have adorned humanity. It is hardly possible, but that his character should take a higher and...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...you can hardly fail of making him a happy 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 — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest...
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The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine, Volumes 16-17

1859 - 886 pages
...to the Kton Mechanics' Institute, once said, "If I were to pray for a taste which should stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, and the tenderesl, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a...
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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1

Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 582 pages
...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. You place him...period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen...
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The Philosophy of History: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna

Friedrich von Schlegel, James Burton Robertson - 1846 - 544 pages
...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. You place him...period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen...
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The works of Frederick Schiller, tr. by A.J. Morrison [and others].

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1846 - 538 pages
...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. You place him...period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1846 - 554 pages
...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. You place him...period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen...
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Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe, Volume 1

Jean-Charles-Lιonard Simonde Sismondi - 1846 - 606 pages
...gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him...period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tendercst, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen...
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