 | 1854 - 1112 pages
...solace from books, it is not surprising that the love of reading, like the natural appetites, groirs by indulgence, and frequently assumes the intensity...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 - American literature - 1858 - 1022 pages
...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 - American literature - 1859 - 1028 pages
...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... | |
 | Almanacs - 1870 - 956 pages
...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 - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - Best books - 1881 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 488 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
