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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... . I count up , of histories of English lit- erature alone ( leaving out the American ) no less than one hundred and thirty authors on this great field or some por- tion of it . To know what ones of these 12 A BOOK FOR ALL READERS .
... . I count up , of histories of English lit- erature alone ( leaving out the American ) no less than one hundred and thirty authors on this great field or some por- tion of it . To know what ones of these 12 A BOOK FOR ALL READERS .
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... less time to fiction than to the more solid food of history , biography , essays , travels , literary history , and ap- plied science . The select list of books in the fields already named is designed to include only the most improving ...
... less time to fiction than to the more solid food of history , biography , essays , travels , literary history , and ap- plied science . The select list of books in the fields already named is designed to include only the most improving ...
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... less . Do not dread the empty sar- casm , that may grow out of the exclusion of freshly print- ed trash , that your library is a " back number . " To some poor souls every thing that is great and good in the world's literature is a ...
... less . Do not dread the empty sar- casm , that may grow out of the exclusion of freshly print- ed trash , that your library is a " back number . " To some poor souls every thing that is great and good in the world's literature is a ...
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... less fiction , and as fast as the books were worn out , they were replaced by useful reading . It resulted that four years later , with 40,000 volumes in the library , only 7,000 were novels , or less than one - fifth , instead of more ...
... less fiction , and as fast as the books were worn out , they were replaced by useful reading . It resulted that four years later , with 40,000 volumes in the library , only 7,000 were novels , or less than one - fifth , instead of more ...
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... less rarity , though always eagerly sought , is the first folio Shakespeare of 1623 , a very fine and perfect copy of which brought £ 716.2 at Daniel's sale in 1864. Copies warranted perfect have since been sold in London for £ 415 to ...
... less rarity , though always eagerly sought , is the first folio Shakespeare of 1623 , a very fine and perfect copy of which brought £ 716.2 at Daniel's sale in 1864. Copies warranted perfect have since been sold in London for £ 415 to ...
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Seite 393 - 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 163 - 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 414 - 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 410 - 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 289 - 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 410 - 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 418 - 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 418 - 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 282 - 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 289 - 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.