Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century: With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences, Volume 3Bradbury & Evans, 1865 |
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... cheap mode of advertising -as a wonderful example of disinterested devotion to the cause of knowledge for the people , on the part of one who might be regarded as the great educator of his time . Palmam qui meruit ferat . The prize ...
... cheap mode of advertising -as a wonderful example of disinterested devotion to the cause of knowledge for the people , on the part of one who might be regarded as the great educator of his time . Palmam qui meruit ferat . The prize ...
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... cheap enough for the humble , who looked to mere quantity . They were too cheap for the genteel , who were then taught to think that a cheap book must necessarily be a bad book . Although very generally welcomed by many who were anxious ...
... cheap enough for the humble , who looked to mere quantity . They were too cheap for the genteel , who were then taught to think that a cheap book must necessarily be a bad book . Although very generally welcomed by many who were anxious ...
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... cheap as my volumes , but , except in very rare instances , they had involved no expense of copyright . In 1851 I wrote : " It is easy to foresee that the public , having got into the habit of pur- chasing this class of books , to the ...
... cheap as my volumes , but , except in very rare instances , they had involved no expense of copyright . In 1851 I wrote : " It is easy to foresee that the public , having got into the habit of pur- chasing this class of books , to the ...
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... cheap reprint . This was the crucial test of an author's popularity . My work as a pub- lisher was finished before these times arrived , which are certainly more favourable for publishing enterprise than those of my own commercial ...
... cheap reprint . This was the crucial test of an author's popularity . My work as a pub- lisher was finished before these times arrived , which are certainly more favourable for publishing enterprise than those of my own commercial ...
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... sale much larger than any work of fiction had previously attained ; not even excepting the Waverley Novels in their cheaper form . I am scarcely aware when my personal knowledge of Mr. Ch . II . ] 37 THE THIRD EPOCH .
... sale much larger than any work of fiction had previously attained ; not even excepting the Waverley Novels in their cheaper form . I am scarcely aware when my personal knowledge of Mr. Ch . II . ] 37 THE THIRD EPOCH .
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Page 171 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 243 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Page 176 - Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 176 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 63 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 284 - ... should be more exerted than when a subject is prosecuted for a libel on the state. The peculiarity of the British constitution (to which, in its fullest extent, we have an undoubted right, however distant we may be from the actual enjoyment, and in which it surpasses every known government in Europe, is this, that its only professed object is the general good, and its only foundation the general will. Hence the people have a right, acknowledged from time immemorial, fortified by a pile of statutes,...
Page 301 - The advised head defends itself at home : For government, though high and low and lower, Put into parts, doth keep in one consent, Congreeing in a full and natural close, Like music.
Page 116 - to encourage life assurance and other provident habits among authors and artists ; to render such assistance to both as shall never compromise their independence ; and to found a new institution where honourable rest from arduous labour shall still be associated with the discharge of congenial duties.
Page 28 - To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench In mirth, that after no repenting draws; Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause, And what the Swede intend, and what the French.