A Book for All Readers: Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books, and the Formation of Public and Private LibrariesG. P. Putnam's sons, 1900 - 509 Seiten |
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... catalogue of poets which none can afford to neglect . Add to these the best translations of Homer , Virgil , Hor- ace , Dante , and Goethe , and one need not want for intel- lectual company and solace in youth or age . Among the books ...
... catalogue of poets which none can afford to neglect . Add to these the best translations of Homer , Virgil , Hor- ace , Dante , and Goethe , and one need not want for intel- lectual company and solace in youth or age . Among the books ...
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... catalogue of " Books for all Time " has nothing that any library need do without . Another compendious list is published by the American Library Association . And the more extensive catalogue prepared for the World's Fair in 1893 , and ...
... catalogue of " Books for all Time " has nothing that any library need do without . Another compendious list is published by the American Library Association . And the more extensive catalogue prepared for the World's Fair in 1893 , and ...
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... catalogue put forth by the American Library Association has the names of five only out of the twenty - eight writers of fiction heretofore pronounced objectionable , and names a select few only of the books of these five . As for the ...
... catalogue put forth by the American Library Association has the names of five only out of the twenty - eight writers of fiction heretofore pronounced objectionable , and names a select few only of the books of these five . As for the ...
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... catalogue of the library , to avoid dupli- cation . After this the titles are to be incorporated in the alphabet of all outstanding orders , to be withdrawn only on receipt of the books . The library should invite suggestions from all ...
... catalogue of the library , to avoid dupli- cation . After this the titles are to be incorporated in the alphabet of all outstanding orders , to be withdrawn only on receipt of the books . The library should invite suggestions from all ...
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... catalogue of the book auctions , and of the second- hand book dealers , which comes to hand . You will thus find a world of books chronicled and offered which you do not want , because you have got them already : you will find many ...
... catalogue of the book auctions , and of the second- hand book dealers , which comes to hand . You will thus find a world of books chronicled and offered which you do not want , because you have got them already : you will find many ...
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Seite 395 - States, or resident therein, who shall be the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts...
Seite 165 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 416 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares—- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Seite 412 - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Seite 291 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto...
Seite 412 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Seite 420 - With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead:— " The dead," methinks a thousand tongues reply: " These are the tombs of such as cannot die ! " Crown'd with eternal fame, they sit sublime, " And laugh at all the little strife of time.
Seite 420 - This, Books can do; — nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live. They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise ; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise : Their aid they yield to all; they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone.
Seite 284 - I CAN wonder at nothing more than how a man can be idle ; but of all others, a scholar ; in so many improvements of reason, in such sweetness of knowledge, in such variety of studies, in such importunity of thoughts : other artizans do but practise, we still learn ; others run still in the same gyre to weariness, to satiety ; our choice is infinite ; other labors require recreations ; our very labor recreates our sports ; we can never want either somewhat to do, or somewhat that we would do.
Seite 291 - Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'da charter, the company being increased to one hundred : this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous.