The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen139A. Constable, 1874 |
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... entirely into an inquiry as to the extent of the circulation of books among the ancient book- reading public , and the actual degree of the multiplication of copies under the comparatively slow and expensive conditions of book ...
... entirely into an inquiry as to the extent of the circulation of books among the ancient book- reading public , and the actual degree of the multiplication of copies under the comparatively slow and expensive conditions of book ...
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... entirely hy- pothetical . * On the transfer of his capital to its new seat upon the Bos- Ep . iv . 7 , p . 93 ( Buxhorn ed . ) Suetonius , Octavius , 34 . phorus , Constantine was not slow to establish a library 1874 . Libraries ...
... entirely hy- pothetical . * On the transfer of his capital to its new seat upon the Bos- Ep . iv . 7 , p . 93 ( Buxhorn ed . ) Suetonius , Octavius , 34 . phorus , Constantine was not slow to establish a library 1874 . Libraries ...
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... entirely independent of the commercial estimate ; and that those prices are no more to be taken as ruling the market of their day than could the Valdarfer Boccaccio , or a unique Caxton , or the Gutenberg Bibles of the Perkins sale , be ...
... entirely independent of the commercial estimate ; and that those prices are no more to be taken as ruling the market of their day than could the Valdarfer Boccaccio , or a unique Caxton , or the Gutenberg Bibles of the Perkins sale , be ...
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... entirely filled ) about 750,000 volumes et pièces . ' By ap- plying Mr. Watts ' scale to this total of 2,250,000 volumes and pieces , ' it would follow that in 1868 the number of volumes or their equivalents must have been about ...
... entirely filled ) about 750,000 volumes et pièces . ' By ap- plying Mr. Watts ' scale to this total of 2,250,000 volumes and pieces , ' it would follow that in 1868 the number of volumes or their equivalents must have been about ...
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... entirely new era in the history of libraries . Mr. Panizzi's first step , on his appointment as Keeper of the Printed Books , was to make a complete survey of the Library , with a view of testing its completeness or its deficiency in ...
... entirely new era in the history of libraries . Mr. Panizzi's first step , on his appointment as Keeper of the Printed Books , was to make a complete survey of the Library , with a view of testing its completeness or its deficiency in ...
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Página 570 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Página 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Página 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Página 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Página 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Página 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Página 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Página 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Página 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.