 | 1854 - 1112 pages
...by indulgence, and frequently assumes the intensity of a passion. " A taste for books," says Gibbon, "is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies." Cicero says that he occupied himself with books "at home and abroad, in the... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Circuit riders - 1844 - 178 pages
...indulgence, and frequently assumes the intensity of a passion. " A taste for books," says Gibbon, " is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies." Cicero says that he occupied himself with books at " home and abroad, in the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, George Peck - Methodists - 1847 - 368 pages
...indulgence, and frequently assumes the intensity of a passion. " A taste for books," says Gibbon, " is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies." Cicero says that he occupied himself with books at " home and abroad, in the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1858 - 1022 pages
...some social Library. Almott any luxury should be sacrificed to this." — WILLIAM ELLERY CHANSISO: Self-Culture. " If the crowns of all the kingdoms...EDWARD GIBBON. And now, gentle reader, having evoked во many of the ' ' mighty and the noble, "who, gathering around thee, a "cloud of witnesses," have... | |
 | Almanacs - 1870 - 956 pages
...in exchange for my 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...it for the glory of the Indies." — Edward Gibbon. "How should we read ? First, thoughtfully and critically; secondly, in company with a friend or your... | |
 | 1873 - 144 pages
...understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses." — Hare. "A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life- l would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies." — Gibbon. «'Books are standing counsellors... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...skill in those 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
...feet in exchange for 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 - Readers - 1881 - 492 pages
...my books and my love of reading, 1 would spurn them all;" and the famous historian, Gibbon, wrote, " A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my...would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies." 6. The learned and delightful Petrarch writes thus of the friends that he finds in books:—" I have... | |
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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,' what a revolution would be created in the character, life and happiness of our young people! 
