 | 1854 - 1112 lehte
...of reading, like the natural appetites, groirs by indulgence, and frequently assumes the intensity of a passion. " A taste for books," says Gibbon, "is...reading. And our earliest poet, Chaucer, has expressed a stronger passion :— " But as for me, although I can but lite,* On booke for to rede I me delite,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 lehte
...my Books and my love of Reading, I would spurn them all." — ARCHBISHOP FENELON. "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. And now, gentle reader, having evoked во many of the ' '... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 lehte
...my Books and my love of Reading, I would spurn them all." — ARCHBISHOP FENELON. "A taste for Books V + w t W WuVǍ ⾇ p g b8 V & g a C F > glory of the Indies." — EDWARD GIBBON. And now, gentle reader, having evoked so many of the "mighty... | |
 | 1870 - 956 lehte
...books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all." — Archbishop F^ntllon. " 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. "How should we read ? First, thoughtfully and critically;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 lehte
...authors they never seriously studied. THOMAS FULLER : The Holy and the Profane State. A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies. GIBBON. Among men long conversant with books we too frequently find those misplaced... | |
 | 1878 - 662 lehte
...my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all;" and Gibbon remarks — "A taste for books is the pleasure and. glory of my life. I would not exchange it tor the riches of the Indies." Dr. Johnson says, "The foundation of knowledge must be laid by reading.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1881 - 486 lehte
...love of reading, I would spurn them all;" and the famous 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." 6. The learned and delightful Petrarch writes thus of the friends that he finds... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1881 - 488 lehte
...of reading, I would spurn them all ;" and the famous 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." 6. The learned and delightful Petrarch writes thus of the friends that he finds... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 lehte
...and solace — in joy and in sorrow, as in prosperity and in adversity. — SMILES. A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies. — GIBBON. Of all the things which man can do or make below, by far the most... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 236 lehte
...love of reading, I would spurn them all;" or that 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." All these words of wise readers show that he who rightly cultivates the reading... | |
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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. 
