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... Ancient Greece Alfred the Great . By Hughes 4574 666 127 .3529 , 3532 From the German of Pauli . By Thorpe 1803 Algebra , Elements of . By Bridge ..... Western Travels . " By Martineau . American Colonies , North , Memoirs of a Church ...
... Ancient Greece Alfred the Great . By Hughes 4574 666 127 .3529 , 3532 From the German of Pauli . By Thorpe 1803 Algebra , Elements of . By Bridge ..... Western Travels . " By Martineau . American Colonies , North , Memoirs of a Church ...
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... Ancient Ruins of . By Wylie ... 220 Biblical Review , for 1848-49 Billow and the Rock . By Martineau 223 Bingley ( Rev. W. ) Celebrated Travellers 224 Binney ( Thomas ) Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds ?. 458 460 462 466 ...
... Ancient Ruins of . By Wylie ... 220 Biblical Review , for 1848-49 Billow and the Rock . By Martineau 223 Bingley ( Rev. W. ) Celebrated Travellers 224 Binney ( Thomas ) Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds ?. 458 460 462 466 ...
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... Ancient and Modern Names .. Suetonius ' Lives of the Twelve Cæsars , and other Works . Thomson's Translation , Revised , with Notes , by T. Forester . 1458 1459 1410 Tacitus . Literally Translated , with Notes . Offices , Old Age ...
... Ancient and Modern Names .. Suetonius ' Lives of the Twelve Cæsars , and other Works . Thomson's Translation , Revised , with Notes , by T. Forester . 1458 1459 1410 Tacitus . Literally Translated , with Notes . Offices , Old Age ...
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... Ancients , New Atlantis , and Henry VII . With Introduction and Notes 1520 Luther's Table Talk . Translated by William Hazlitt ... Ancient and Modern . first Completely Translated , with General Index ...... 1626 - Philosophy of History ...
... Ancients , New Atlantis , and Henry VII . With Introduction and Notes 1520 Luther's Table Talk . Translated by William Hazlitt ... Ancient and Modern . first Completely Translated , with General Index ...... 1626 - Philosophy of History ...
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... Ancient 663 ..646 , 705 730 261 3250 259 ... 3911 ( Charlotte ) Jane Eyre .. Shirley .408 , 534 3411 The Professor 533 Villette .404 , 405 , 406 , 535 Bunn ( Alfred ) The Stage ; Before and Behind the Curtain ... 731 Memoirs . By ...
... Ancient 663 ..646 , 705 730 261 3250 259 ... 3911 ( Charlotte ) Jane Eyre .. Shirley .408 , 534 3411 The Professor 533 Villette .404 , 405 , 406 , 535 Bunn ( Alfred ) The Stage ; Before and Behind the Curtain ... 731 Memoirs . By ...
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Page 104 - For 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; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 23 - Is. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day In the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann. By Major JOHNS, RM, and Lieutenant PH NICOLAS, RM. Twenty-four Par
Page 104 - 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 104 - Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. " You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Page 104 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 104 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 104 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a...
Page 23 - POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, and other Objects of Vertu. Comprising an Illustrated Catalogue of the Bernal Collection of Works of Art, with the prices at which they were sold by auction, and names of the possessors. To which are added, an Introductory Lecture on Pottery and Porcelain, and an Engraved List of all the known Marks and Monograms.
Page 104 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
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