 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 Seiten
...good of all ages have written, is ready to your hand. " If the riches of both Indies," said Fenelon, " if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." I can not but marvel that any young person should imbibe a disrelish, or neglect to cultivate a taste,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 468 Seiten
...into. He might have found some who will say with Fenelon, with all earnestness, " 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." But even among these, the reading and thinking class, he would be wise to observe how much more important... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 652 Seiten
...into. He might have found some who will say with Fenelon, with all earnestness, ' 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.' But even among these, the reading and thinking class, he would be wise to observe how much more important... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 636 Seiten
...into. He might have found some who will say with Fenelon, with all earnestness, ' 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.' But even among these, the reading and thinking class, he would be wise to observe how much more important... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 630 Seiten
...into. He might have found some who will say with Fenelon, with all earnestness, ' 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.' But even among these, the reading and thinking class, he would be wise to observe how much more important... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 416 Seiten
...up at a stall on the quay, made the poet of Toulon. " If the riches of both Indies," said Fenelon, " if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." Books not only enrich and enlarge the mind, but they stimulate, inflame, and concentrate its activity;... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 360 Seiten
...at a stall on the quay, made the poet of 10 Toulon. " If the riches of both Indies," said Fenelon, " if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." Books not only enrich and enlarge the minJ, but they stimulate, inflame, and concentrate its activity;... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 468 Seiten
...into. He might have found some who will say with Fenelon, with all earnestness, " If the riches of both Indies, if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for rny love of reading, I would spurn them all." But even among these, the reading and thinking class,... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1883 - 320 Seiten
...instructed.— The Choice of Books. EH Chapin, DD 1814—1880. " If the riches of both Indies," said Fenelon, " if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." This will find air echo in the hearts of many whose toil that love has lightened, whose grief it has... | |
 | 1886 - 208 Seiten
...be exercised in the selection of reading matter. —A. Ritchie. 6. If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid...exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. —Fenelon. 173. FLOWERS. Write from dictation, telling what you can of each. 174. DICTATION EXERCISE.... | |
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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. 
