Part the first. History of libraries (contin.) Economy of librariesTrübner & Company, 1859 |
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... upwards of £ 3000 annually . Of late years , they have fallen off , and so we have been able to do very little in purchasing foreign books . " Dr. Irving , the late Librarian , returned the number of printed volumes in 1849 , as 148,000 ...
... upwards of £ 3000 annually . Of late years , they have fallen off , and so we have been able to do very little in purchasing foreign books . " Dr. Irving , the late Librarian , returned the number of printed volumes in 1849 , as 148,000 ...
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... upwards of 3000 volumes . The third chapter of the Statuta Bibliotheca Collegii Trinitatis is entitled , De iis qui in Bibliothecam ad 1 If this number be compared with that given forty years ago , ap- parently on official authority ...
... upwards of 3000 volumes . The third chapter of the Statuta Bibliotheca Collegii Trinitatis is entitled , De iis qui in Bibliothecam ad 1 If this number be compared with that given forty years ago , ap- parently on official authority ...
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... upwards of £ 30,000 in public works . Amongst the memorials which he has left to the Diocese of Armagh , are four churches , a noble school - house , and the Li- brary I am about to notice . The Lord Primate founded his Library for ...
... upwards of £ 30,000 in public works . Amongst the memorials which he has left to the Diocese of Armagh , are four churches , a noble school - house , and the Li- brary I am about to notice . The Lord Primate founded his Library for ...
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... upwards of 30,000 , and adds that the recent increase has " principally taken place in Dictionaries , History , Diplomacy , Voy- ages and Travels , as well as all works of authority con- nected with the East Indies and Colonial ...
... upwards of 30,000 , and adds that the recent increase has " principally taken place in Dictionaries , History , Diplomacy , Voy- ages and Travels , as well as all works of authority con- nected with the East Indies and Colonial ...
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... upwards of £ 5,000 was realized ; some of the finest books passed into the Library of King George III .; others enriched the great Library of France ; and many are to be seen in the Hunterian col- lection at Glasgow . Library of Rich ...
... upwards of £ 5,000 was realized ; some of the finest books passed into the Library of King George III .; others enriched the great Library of France ; and many are to be seen in the Hunterian col- lection at Glasgow . Library of Rich ...
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Part the first. History of libraries (contin.) Economy of libraries Edward Edwards Vista completa - 1859 |
Part the first. History of libraries (contin.) Economy of libraries Edward Edwards Vista completa - 1859 |
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...