Notices of Public Libraries in the United States of AmericaSmithsonian Institution, 1851 - 207 pages |
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Page 11 - To discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general, and of this State in particular.
Page 52 - I had no professor or teacher to guide me ; but I had two noble places of study. One was yonder beautiful edifice, now so frequented and so useful as a public library, then so deserted that I spent day after day and sometimes week after week amidst its dusty volumes, without interruption from a single visitor.
Page 73 - An alphabetical index to subjects, treated in the reviews, and other periodicals, to which no indexes have been published ; prepared for the library of the Brothers in Unity, Yale College.
Page 56 - In 1806 the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the spontaneous vote of the University of Glasgow; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the National Institute of France.
Page 89 - Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of useful knowledge and the general good of society...
Page 71 - the finest collection of books that ever came together at one time into America.
Page 146 - A Catalogue of the Library of the State of Virginia, arranged alphabetically, under different heads, with the number and size of the volumes of each work specified; to which are prefixed the rules and regulations provided for its government...
Page 147 - December, 1846, conferring upon it authority " to establish at or near the town of Romney a seminary of learning, for the instruction of youth in the various branches of science and literature.
Page 90 - In witness whereof, I have set my hand and seal to this codicil, and publish the same as a codicil to my will, this twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirtynine.
Page 117 - 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.