 ... he that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in...  History of Boone County, Iowa - Page 9edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1898 - 502 pages
...Georg1. The Story of My Life. With Portraits. 12mo. Cloth. Price OS cents. Ky mail $1 10. He who loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter, as by reading, writing and thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly... | |
 | Sir Moses Montefiore, Lady Judith Cohen Montefiore - Jews - 1890 - 442 pages
...more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly." " He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effective comforter." " The studies afford nourishment to our youth, delight to our old age,... | |
 | Sir Moses Montefiore - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1890 - 928 pages
...more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly." " He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effective comforter." " He may be well content that need not borrow nor flatter." He attends... | |
 | Authors, English - 1891 - 842 pages
...vicissitude, the more we shall become convinced of the truth of what Isaac Barrow says, " that he who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter." — St. James's Gazette. January 28th, 1892. in. ON LITERARY COLLABORATION.... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 228 pages
...tranquillity of retirement than with the tumults of society." " He that loveth a book," says Isaac Barrow, " will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly... | |
 | Education - 1913 - 456 pages
...caiAkvwe Fr*«. Every T»«a*«r thoald har* oo*. TS OCNISOM * CO. D"pt •• CbK »»-«.» I l~*l t^tfj "He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a cheerful companion, an effective comforter." — Isaac Barrows. THE HOTEL VAN RENSSELAER IS to 19 Last... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...God should love him m return, /./•., love to God, as to man, should be entirely unselfish. Spinoza. He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. Isaac Barrow. He that loveth danger shall perish therein. 60 Ecclus. He that... | |
 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - Libraries - 1893 - 568 pages
...О BOOKS к s and in the four corners within ornamental red and blue borders sentences like "He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter," " Not many, but good books," and " The library is the people's college.... | |
 | Philip Stafford Moxom - Conduct of life - 1894 - 316 pages
...Had Plato never spoken from his cell, Or his high harp blind Homer never strung ? LORD LYTTON. He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — BARROW. Till I come give attendance to reading. For whatsoever things... | |
 | 1894 - 504 pages
...such good talk on such good subjects as in a Book Club ? "For he who loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, and an effectual comforter." Talk about the claunishness of the Hebrews, the Scotch or the Irish. It's isolation compared with that... | |
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