... 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 74by Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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