 | 1856 - 794 Seiten
...companions : they are solitudes ; We lose ourselves in them, and all our cares." " Worthy books ¡ut all this is lost to him. He cannot, with Fenelon,...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." If successful, he enjoys the companionship of the great and good of all time. He listens to Xenophon.... | |
 | 1856 - 588 Seiten
...wn upon me, it would be a taste for reading ;"—with Fúnélon, who declares, " If e riches of both Indies, if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at Г feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all ;"—with Luther, о records a... | |
 | 1857 - 818 Seiten
...fame or honor in the world." " If the riches of both Indies," eaid the amiable and elegant Fenelon, "if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." Milton, speaking of young men when they quit the universities: "Now on the sudden transported under... | |
 | 1858 - 878 Seiten
...painful toil, for thousands of vears." "If all the riches of both the Indies," exclaims Fenelon, " if the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." dark care is lost in the last waking thought, and haunts the vivid dream. Happy, then, is he who has... | |
 | Wisconsin. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1858 - 866 Seiten
...painful toil, for thousands of years." "If all the riches of both the Indies," exclaims FENELON, " if the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." dark care is lost in the last waking thought, and haunts the vivid dream. Happy, then, is he who has... | |
 | 1860 - 538 Seiten
...painful toil, for thousands of years." " If all the riches of both the Indies," exclaims FENELON, " if the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life,... | |
 | 1860 - 418 Seiten
...painful toil, for thousands of years." " If all the riches of both the Indies," exclaims Fenelon, "if the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. " " Libraries for the people aro wanted," exclaims Lamartine, the humano .statesman of France. "These... | |
 | 1864 - 234 Seiten
...painful toil, for thousands of years." "If all the riches of both the Indies," exclaims Fenelon, "if the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." . "The working man," says Rufus Choate—-"by whom I mean the whole brotherhood of industry—should... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 Seiten
...ignorance.—Dr. South. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. —Lady Montague. If all the riches of both the Indies, if the crowns...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.—Fenelon. 11 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the... | |
 | 1908 - 764 Seiten
...despised which the Creator of the Universe made His own.—Leo the Great. 25. If the riches of both Indies, if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe,...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.—Fenelon. 26. Honest praise is the best sort of criticism for those who will not rightly appreciate... | |
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all this is lost to him. He cannot, with Fenelon, say—" If all the riches of both the Indies, if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. 
