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 pages |
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... gives of the times they y environment , and on their contempo- ranklin , one of the we are taken into THE CHOICE OF BOOKS . the writer's confidence , sympathize with his early st gles , mistakes , and successes , and learn how he made ...
... gives of the times they y environment , and on their contempo- ranklin , one of the we are taken into THE CHOICE OF BOOKS . the writer's confidence , sympathize with his early st gles , mistakes , and successes , and learn how he made ...
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... gives a much fuller account , from t ginnings of France in the Roman period , to the year Carlyle's French Revolution is a splendid picture o wonderful epoch , and Sloane's History of Napoleon very full details of the later period . For ...
... gives a much fuller account , from t ginnings of France in the Roman period , to the year Carlyle's French Revolution is a splendid picture o wonderful epoch , and Sloane's History of Napoleon very full details of the later period . For ...
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... gives a , Russia , France , tries , the various eries , are excellent c and his United well written his- aborately and ably Merivale's Rome , man Empire . to biography and men , and men of . These familiar letters frequently give us ...
... gives a , Russia , France , tries , the various eries , are excellent c and his United well written his- aborately and ably Merivale's Rome , man Empire . to biography and men , and men of . These familiar letters frequently give us ...
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... give in popular and often in a fascinating style , the revelations o nature which have come through the study and investiga tion of man . Such books are " The Stars and the Earth , ' Kingsley's " Glaucus , or Wonders of the Shore ...
... give in popular and often in a fascinating style , the revelations o nature which have come through the study and investiga tion of man . Such books are " The Stars and the Earth , ' Kingsley's " Glaucus , or Wonders of the Shore ...
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... give far 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 ...
... give far 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 ...
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Page 403 - 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...
Page 173 - 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.
Page 424 - 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.
Page 420 - 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.
Page 420 - 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.
Page 299 - 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...
Page 428 - 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.
Page 425 - I LOVE my books as drinkers love their wine ; The more I drink, the more they seem divine ; With joy elate my soul in love runs o'er, And each fresh draught is sweeter than before ! Books bring me friends where'er on earth I be, — Solace of solitude, bonds of society. I love my books ! they are companions dear, Sterling in worth, in friendship most sincere ; Here talk I with the wise in ages gone, And with the nobly gifted in our own : If love, joy, laughter, sorrow please my mind, Love, joy, grief,...
Page 428 - 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.
Page 292 - 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.