 | Alexander Ireland - 1883 - Страниц: 320
...spells. The Task, Book vi., The Winter Walk at Noon. Edward Gibbon. 1737 — 1794. A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies. The miseries of a vacant life are never known to a man whose hours are insufficient for the inexhaustible... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 1000
...Books and my love of Heading, 1 would spurn them all." — AIICHBISHOP FENEI.ON. "A taste for Books is the pleasure and glory of my life, I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies."— EDWARD GIBBON. ".Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile;... | |
 | 1884 - Страниц: 532
...spells. The Task, Book vi., The Winter Walk at Noon. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737 — 1794. A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. ... I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies. . . . The miseries of a vacant life are never known to a man whose" hours are insufficient for the... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - Страниц: 530
...spells. The Task, Book vi., The Winter Walk at Noon. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737 — 1794. A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. ... I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies .... The miseries of a vacant life are never known to a man whose hours are insufficient for the inexhaustible... | |
 | Enquirer - 1884 - Страниц: 458
...books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all." — Archbishop Fcnelon. " A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the glories of the Indies." — Edward Gibbon. 1528b. Beading Aloud.— This is one of the most important... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 230
...than extrinsic merit ; such a collector, in fact, who can exclaim with Gibbon, " A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life ; I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies." How many persons there may be in this country who are imbued with such sentiments as these is an open... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 996
...surely these are the marks of a genuine scholar. Gibbon, the historian, has said, " A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies." To combat trifling, frivolous reading, to be constantly a vigilant guard against... | |
 | 1888 - Страниц: 102
...books and love of reading, I would spurn them all." And the historian Gibbon, wrote: "A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies." Mere acquired knowledge belongs to us only like a wooden leg and a wax nose.... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - Страниц: 746
...for my books and my love for reading, I would spurn them all;' or, with Gibbon, 'A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life; I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies,' what a revolution would be created in the character, life and happiness of our... | |
 | Halkett Lord - 1890 - Страниц: 302
...more than extrinsic merit; such a collector, in fact, who can exclaim with Gibbon, " A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life ; I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies." How many persons there may be in this country who are imbued with such sentiments as these is an open... | |
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A taste for Books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies. 
