 | James Anderson - 1792 - Počet stránok 390
...seek after with ardour during •the course of their -life, all is but vain amusement, except dry and old wood' to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read. TO CGRKESJONDENTS. Tin Editor returns thanks to the gentleman who has taken the trouble .of transcribing... | |
 | Počet stránok 428
...virtuous," and the above is eminently true — not without. OB, COMPANION TO THE LOVER OF OLD BOOKS. " Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read." — ALFONSO, KING OF ARRAGON. No. VI. — Taylor " the Plalonist.'" Specimens of his version of the"... | |
 | 1807 - Počet stránok 474
...possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old -,.',(1011 to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read." The Christian monarch, in his estimation of human happiness, must be pronounced the most reasonable,... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 384
...it is meant, for any injury to the moderns. I shall conclnde with a saying of Alphonsns, (snrnamed the Wise) king of Arragon : . ; " That among so many...books to read." SOME THOUGHTS UPON REVIEWING THE ESSAY ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING. 1 HAVE been induced, by several motives, to take a farther survey of the... | |
 | Sir William Temple - 1821 - Počet stránok 390
...rest are baubles, besides old wood to barn, \old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, land old books to read." SOME THOUGHTS UPON REVIEWING THE...I HAVE been induced, by several motives, to take a farther survey of the controversy arisen of late years concerning the excellence of ancient and modern... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - Počet stránok 406
...a philosopher, could find out nothing more to be desired in human life, than these four things — old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read ; you may be sure of enjoying all these, and the third of them (which I suppose he thought the most... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - Počet stránok 388
...philosopher, could find out nothing more to be desired in human life, than these four things—old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read; you may be sure of enjoying all these, and the third of them (which I suppose he thought the most valuable)... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - 1829 - Počet stránok 534
...many things as are by man possessed or pursued, in the course of their lives, all the rest are but baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink,...friends to converse with, and old books to read," I cannot help being of opinion, that such as think fit to be at the pains to read over what is here... | |
 | 1843 - Počet stránok 830
...the various things which mankind either possess or seek, all are baubles, except " old wood to bum, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read." The Roman people, in the time of Juvenal, somewhat like the Parisians at present, required only )>anrm... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - Počet stránok 936
...let on long leases." ROYAI. SAYING. — Alphonsus, surnamed the Wise, king of Aragon, used to say, " That among so many things as are by men possessed...friends to converse with, and old books to read." FALSE POSITIONS. — If yon choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of... | |
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That among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read. 
