 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1801 - 424 pages
...than fhe ever gave ; and in general, . take the word of a man who has feen the world, and has fludied human nature more by experience than precept ; take my word for it, I fay, that books teach us very little of the world. The greateft merit in a ftate of poverty would only... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave; and, in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...experience than precept ; take my word for it, I say, that such books teach us very little of the world." Life of Goldsmith, prefixed to his Miscellaneous Works.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave ; and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous ; may distress,... | |
 | John Witherspoon - Child rearing - 1817 - 92 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave ; and, in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...experience than precept, take my word for it, I say, that such books teach us very little of the world." The heart at thirty is by no means the softer, for our... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave : and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous ; may distress,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave : and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous ; may distress,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 572 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave ; and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous — may... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 554 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave ; and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous, — may... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave; and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous, — may... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 550 pages
...little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave ; and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world, and...say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous, — may... | |
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They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness which never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave ; and in general, take the word of a man who has seen the world,... 
