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" Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "
The Millennial Harbinger - Page 93
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The Repository, Volume 1

1858 - 434 pages
...as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree derogating from the higher office and sure and stronger panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you...
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Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business

1859 - 188 pages
...worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office, and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles,...happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of...
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Uncle Frank's Pleasant Pages for the Fireside: A Miscellany of Tales ...

Francis Channing Woodworth - 1859 - 322 pages
...ills, howevei things might go amiss, and the 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 man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse se lection of books." THE...
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A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pages
...ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be A TASTE FOR READING. Y W ̋ *x !? =p ] UCN %] Qը d 5 T oH z \6 HqK\q^: =" z 2< Y.93 [j V } e !g him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hands в most perverse selection of Books. Yon place...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 4

Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree derogating from the higher office, and sure and stronger panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, a source of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you...
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The Young Gold-digger; Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Gold Regions

Friedrich Gerstäcker - 1860 - 376 pages
...worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office, and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles,...happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of...
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Rose and Lillie Stanhope; or, The power of conscience

Maria Jane M'Intosh - 1860 - 156 pages
...worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office, and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles—...hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you'pnt into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society...
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History of the Revolt of the Netherlands, Continued: Trials of Counts Egmont ...

Friedrich Schiller - 1860 - 570 pages
...its ills, however things might go amiss and the 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 man ; unless, indeed, yon put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. Ton place...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...derogating from the higher office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles— but as 3 taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means p' gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into hi*...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...panoply of religious principles— but as Lute, an Instrument, and a mode of ulcasurubVe truncation. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fAfl ot muMni n \iavttT wa-a ; "ouift*v^i«A, *jwi Y^t- Into bl» J7-1760.] onovE. 425 writings for...
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