 | 1954 - 1232 Seiten
...furniture; ownership is saying with Fenelon, "If the crowns of all the kingdoms in Europe wert laid down at my feet in exchange for my love of reading. I would spurn them all." Possession is having a morocco-bound volume of Emerson that you never look at; ownership is having... | |
 | Boston Public Library - 1895 - 794 Seiten
...refuge and comfort of adversity." " If the riches of both Indies," says Fe'nelon, " if the crowns of the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." These seem extravagant words. They exhaust the language of eulogy. But riches and crowns are but adventitious... | |
 | 1926 - 448 Seiten
...science at a standstill, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.—Bartholin. 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.—Fenelon. for emphasis on broader aspects of... | |
 | 1913 - 258 Seiten
...inherited from his aunt "an invincible love of reading;" Fenelon, who said, "If the kingdoms of all Europe were laid at my .feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." Sir John Lubbock, author of the "Pleasures of Life," said in regard to the training of the mind, "The... | |
 | William C. King - 2003 - 660 Seiten
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 | F. B. Vaux - 2004 - 144 Seiten
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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. 
