| 1920 - 594 pages
...before us. To few people did books mean more than to Macaulay. In a letter to his niece he once said, "I would rather be -a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading." He who has such a satisfying love of good books has in his possession a pearl of great priée. The... | |
| Emma Miller Bolenius - English language - 1921 - 444 pages
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king — I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading. MACAXJLAY A Talk to the Class : Charades. Choose a word like " Washington " in which the syllables... | |
| Walter Alwyn Briscoe - Advertising - 1921 - 136 pages
...heirs to ample heritages, Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages." —Longfellow. * * * * " I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of BOOKS than a king who did not love reading." — -Macaulay. * * * * " Worthy BOOKS are ... solitudes : we lose ourselves in them and all our cares."... | |
| 1896 - 734 pages
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading. And now let me try to point out some of the ways in which a love of literature will enlarge and sweeten... | |
| John Harrie Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan, William Dodge Lewis - English language - 1926 - 474 pages
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on the condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. —Thomas B. Macaulay through your work to get at a book? If you have not, you have missed something... | |
| Education - 1910 - 536 pages
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king — I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading. — Macaulay. The Philosophy of Method HH HORNE, Professor of History of Education, New York University... | |
| Deaf - 1928 - 916 pages
...gratified, for what greater delight can man have than the delight of reading, and as Macaulay says, "I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books, than a king who did not love reading." The Study of Applied Arts By SYVILLA H. STAMBAUGH... | |
| Holbrook Jackson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 676 pages
...to prove that a book you love is ajoy to your eyes at all rimes. VII. THE WORLD WELL LOST FOR THEM / would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.* This is a sentiment which most true bibliophiles will uphold, even those austere philosophers whose... | |
| 118 pages
...without digesting. - Edmund Burke '/Reading to mind is what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele a/ would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books to read than a king who did not love reading. - Lord Macau/ay * * Reality The world is filled with... | |
| Proverbs, Chinese - 2005 - 328 pages
...American. f^^.-^HliIA'7$^lllllA'?E-til^;ll@A0 E ^i I wept when I was born, and every day shows why. -j|j JI would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading. j I would rather have the affectionate regard... | |
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