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... , ALTERED , AND ENLARGED WITH NEW ARTICLES . VOL . I. London : PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY , FLEET - STREET ; AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE , AND CO . EDINBURGH . HARVARD PUNIVERSITY LIBRARY 8 Aug 194 ?! Nichols d'und- C. 1807 .
... , ALTERED , AND ENLARGED WITH NEW ARTICLES . VOL . I. London : PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY , FLEET - STREET ; AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE , AND CO . EDINBURGH . HARVARD PUNIVERSITY LIBRARY 8 Aug 194 ?! Nichols d'und- C. 1807 .
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... History of ... 332 Preachers , Jocular .... 433 Prefaces .... 109 Printing , early ... 118 Prior's Hans Carvel .... 183 Q Quodlibets , or Scholastic Disquisitions 91 page R Rabbinical Stories 200 Relics of Saints 412 .... INDEX .
... History of ... 332 Preachers , Jocular .... 433 Prefaces .... 109 Printing , early ... 118 Prior's Hans Carvel .... 183 Q Quodlibets , or Scholastic Disquisitions 91 page R Rabbinical Stories 200 Relics of Saints 412 .... INDEX .
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... heels of Wisdom . I saw in an English bible printed in Holland , an instance of the same taste ; The artist to illustrate " Thou seest the mote in thy neigh VOL . I. a bour's eye , but not the beam in thine own ADDENDA . xvii.
... heels of Wisdom . I saw in an English bible printed in Holland , an instance of the same taste ; The artist to illustrate " Thou seest the mote in thy neigh VOL . I. a bour's eye , but not the beam in thine own ADDENDA . xvii.
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... printed books ; 70,000 MSS .; 15,000 collections of prints ; and 7,000 genealogies . The pleasures of study are classed by Burton among those exercises or recreations of the mind which pass within doors . He has indeed described with ...
... printed books ; 70,000 MSS .; 15,000 collections of prints ; and 7,000 genealogies . The pleasures of study are classed by Burton among those exercises or recreations of the mind which pass within doors . He has indeed described with ...
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... we see more clearly the excellencies and defects of a printed book than when it is in мs .: so we see them more plainly in good paper and clear type than when the impression and paper are both bad . He always purchased 12 THE BIBLIOMANIA .
... we see more clearly the excellencies and defects of a printed book than when it is in мs .: so we see them more plainly in good paper and clear type than when the impression and paper are both bad . He always purchased 12 THE BIBLIOMANIA .
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Seite 503 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Seite 51 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 502 - I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Seite 246 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
Seite 316 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
Seite 496 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. E 2 My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.
Seite 134 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 146 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.
Seite 464 - Were I to tell you that I do not mean to marry, I might say less than I intend ; and were I to tell you that I do mean to marry, I might say more than it is proper for you to know; therefore I give you an answer, ANSWERLESS !
Seite 40 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.