| 1867 - 396 páginas
...house, and hanger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting down on luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon down, is as if...bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without... | |
| T. W. Garland - 1860 - 138 páginas
...books at any rate. To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon...bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1862 - 460 páginas
...books at any rate ! To spend several days in a friend's house, and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon...mind. Is it not pitiable to see a man growing rich, augmenting the comforts of home, and lavishing money on ostentatious upholstery, upon the table, upon... | |
| 1866 - 578 páginas
...while you are treading on costly carpets and sitting down on luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon down, as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without... | |
| REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 páginas
...friend's house, and hunger for something to reed, while you are treading on costly carpets, and eitting upon luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon down, is...mind. Is it not pitiable to see a man growing rich, augmenting the comforts of home, and lavishmg money on ostentatious upholstery, upon the table, upon... | |
| 1867 - 612 páginas
...while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting down on luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon down, as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Books are windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.... | |
| 1868 - 398 páginas
...books at any rate ! To spend, several days in a friend's house, and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon...bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without them is like a room without... | |
| 1868 - 1048 páginas
...books at any rate ! To spend several days in a friend's house, and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon...down, is as if one were bribing your body for the purpose of cheating your mind. Is it not pitiable to see a man growing rich, and beginning to augment... | |
| 1868 - 398 páginas
...while you are treading on costly carpets and sitting down on luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon down ; as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without book.« is like a room without... | |
| 1869 - 860 páginas
...while you are treading on costly carpets and sitting down on luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon down ; as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without... | |
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