 | Sarah E. Sprague - 1904 - 272 Seiten
...will some day say, with B^nelon, the famous French prelate and author, " If the crowns of the world were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." Ht is well to tbinfe well: it is oivine to act well. — Horace Mann. SIR GALAHAD. My good blade carves... | |
 | Mary Foote Henderson - 1904 - 794 Seiten
...pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes." " It" the crowns of the world were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all," -s1id Feuelon. " Imagine," says Aiken, " that we had it in our power to call up the shadows of the... | |
 | Mary Foote Henderson - 1906 - 794 Seiten
...pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes." " If the crowns of the world were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all," said Fenelon. " Imagine," says Aiken, "that we had it in our power to call up the shadows of the greatest... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 Seiten
...everything of something, and something of everything.— Brougham. 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.—Ffnelon. The foundation of knowledge mast be laid by reading. General principles must be had... | |
 | Lawrence McTurnan - 1910 - 256 Seiten
...hundredth time great productions which I know almost by heart." Fenelon said: "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." It was Carlyle who called good books the equivalent of a university. Of old, those who longed for instruction... | |
 | James L. Gordon - 1911 - 406 Seiten
...has an inner source of joy and a perpetual source of comfort. "If," said Fenelon, "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." AN AGE OF BOOKS "The best university is a collection of good books," says Thomas Carlyle, and to his... | |
 | 1913 - 336 Seiten
...for happiness, the love of books come among the first. Fenton says, "If all the crowns of the world were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." What would we do without these treasures of thought, these genial companions, ever ready at our beck... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - 1915 - 476 Seiten
...many enthusiasms turned to smoke, ttiany lives spoiled for want of a little patience and endurance. n. If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my Feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all. ra. The wealth of a nation cannot be summed up... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - 1915 - 506 Seiten
...many enthusiasms turned to smoke, many lives spoiled for want of a little patience and endurance. 11. If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all. 12. The wealth of a nation cannot be summed up... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - 1915 - 476 Seiten
...many enthusiasms turned to smoke, many lives spoiled for want of a little patience and endurance. n. If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all. 12. The'wealth of a nation cannot be summed up... | |
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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. 
