 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 me,...  Self Culture - Stran 3171897Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 strani
...GEOGRAPHY ;" " AN ATLAS OP PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY," &C. &C. " 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 through life, and a shield against... | |
 | 1854 - 794 strani
...denied the companionship 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...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." —... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 strani
...1 "DlSBentrrs" had not the privilege of Oxford and Cambridge Universities 3 "It I were to pray for a taste, which should stand me In stead under every...source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through lift1, and a shield against It* Ills, however things might go amiss, and (lie world frown upon me.... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 strani
...SIR JOHN HERSCHEL has declared, that if he were to ask for a taste which should stand him 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... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 132 strani
...fortune), with a discriminating, manly, and provident mercy. — Burke. EXERCISE XIV. 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 through life, and a shield against... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 strani
...Useful and Miscellaneous Literature, may also be obtained on application. , " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 strani
...world shows the honours it can confer : — • " If," says Sir John Herschel, " I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading — I speak of it, of course, not as superseding or derogating from the higher office, and surer and... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1855 - 150 strani
...Miscellaneous and Railway Literature, may also be obtained on application. " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every...amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a tcate for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree... | |
 | 1855 - 228 strani
...wide popularity by the beauty and brilliancy of his style. A LOVE OF LITERATURE. WERE I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon... | |
 | Joachim Heinrich Campe - 1856 - 274 strani
...Useful Miscellaneous and Railway Literature, may also be obtained on. application. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding... | |
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