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... Letter to Lord Ellesmere Opinions of Messrs . Corney , Craik , Payne Collier , and Carlyle The Report of the Commissioners as to Printing Its Fallacies on this head Plans of Stereotyping . Jewett's Account of his Process Report of a ...
... Letter to Lord Ellesmere Opinions of Messrs . Corney , Craik , Payne Collier , and Carlyle The Report of the Commissioners as to Printing Its Fallacies on this head Plans of Stereotyping . Jewett's Account of his Process Report of a ...
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... letters - many of them from royal hands , and other State Papers , presented by the Earl of Balcarras ; the various papers of Lord Fountainhall , of James Anderson , and of Murray of Stanhope ; the Perth collections of the Rev. James ...
... letters - many of them from royal hands , and other State Papers , presented by the Earl of Balcarras ; the various papers of Lord Fountainhall , of James Anderson , and of Murray of Stanhope ; the Perth collections of the Rev. James ...
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... letters in the College of Glasgow , have frealie doted and geivine . ... to the said College ... my buikis and volumes after specified , reserving my awine lyfrent usse of them alennerlie , to be appropriat in all tyme coming thairafter ...
... letters in the College of Glasgow , have frealie doted and geivine . ... to the said College ... my buikis and volumes after specified , reserving my awine lyfrent usse of them alennerlie , to be appropriat in all tyme coming thairafter ...
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... letters , indeed , here as else- where , far transcend the men of trade , in their care for them " who are to come after , " small as have usually been their comparative means . But the example has proved a spur to honourable rivalry ...
... letters , indeed , here as else- where , far transcend the men of trade , in their care for them " who are to come after , " small as have usually been their comparative means . But the example has proved a spur to honourable rivalry ...
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... letter to the Chairman of the Committee that " notwith- standing this testimony is supported by a " letter from a Professor of Marischal College , " it is nevertheless a fact that can easily be verified that there is a reading or ...
... letter to the Chairman of the Committee that " notwith- standing this testimony is supported by a " letter from a Professor of Marischal College , " it is nevertheless a fact that can easily be verified that there is a reading or ...
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Part the first. History of libraries (contin.) Economy of libraries Edward Edwards Vista completa - 1859 |
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Página 46 - He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses
Página 108 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile. And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Página 240 - Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book. Not like a dead city of stones, yearly crumbling, yearly needing repair; more like a tilled field, but then a spiritual field : like a spiritual tree, let me rather say, it stands from year to year, and from age to age...
Página 183 - Library which, though small at first, is become highly valuable and extensively useful, and which the walls of this edifice are now destined to contain and preserve: the first stone of whose foundation was here placed the thirty-first day of August, 1789.
Página 139 - If we think of it, all that a University, or final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first School began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences ; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves ! It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us. The true University of these days is a Collection...
Página 181 - We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to one hundred; this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defence...
Página 182 - Mr. Pole, however, received the thanks of the directors, and the articles were advertised, but never recovered. " 1774. On the 31st of August, 1774, it was, ' upon motion, ordered that the librarian furnish the gentlemen who are to meet in Congress, in this city, with such books as they may have occasion for, during their sitting, taking a receipt for them.
Página 651 - The business going forward at present in the pamphlet shops of Paris is incredible. I went to the Palais Royal to see what new things were published, and to procure a catalogue of all. Every hour produces something new. Thirteen came out today, sixteen yesterday, and ninety-two last week.
Página 181 - 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, 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...
Página 238 - The money which may have been or shall be paid by persons as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws...