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... Poem ) . By Heberay 4319 Amber Witch , The . By Meinhold 656 , 2980 Angas ( G. F. ) Savage Life in Australia and New Zealand .. 54 Amelia ( a Novel ) . By Fielding .. 267 Angelique Arnauld . By Martin .. 3541 Amenities of Literature ...
... Poem ) . By Heberay 4319 Amber Witch , The . By Meinhold 656 , 2980 Angas ( G. F. ) Savage Life in Australia and New Zealand .. 54 Amelia ( a Novel ) . By Fielding .. 267 Angelique Arnauld . By Martin .. 3541 Amenities of Literature ...
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... Poem ) ..... Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers , and other Poems ........ 45 46 of a Philosopher .. BABBAGE ( Charles ) Passages from the Life 148 Bancroft ( George ) History of the American Re- volution , from 1748 to 1774 152 Babylonian ...
... Poem ) ..... Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers , and other Poems ........ 45 46 of a Philosopher .. BABBAGE ( Charles ) Passages from the Life 148 Bancroft ( George ) History of the American Re- volution , from 1748 to 1774 152 Babylonian ...
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... . 87. 1860. - St Stephen's : a Poem . Elements of Drawing . Fleets and Navies of England . Nelson 502 503 and Caracciolo . Volunteer Cavalry Movement . Wellington's Career Vol 14 BIR BLA SOUTH SHIELDS PUBLIC FREE LIBRARY .
... . 87. 1860. - St Stephen's : a Poem . Elements of Drawing . Fleets and Navies of England . Nelson 502 503 and Caracciolo . Volunteer Cavalry Movement . Wellington's Career Vol 14 BIR BLA SOUTH SHIELDS PUBLIC FREE LIBRARY .
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... Poems , Complete , from the German , by E. A. Bowring .... 1570 Hungary its History and Revolutions . With a Memoir of Kossuth from New and Authentic Sources . Hutchinson ( Colonel ) , Memoirs of , with the Siege of Latham House ...
... Poems , Complete , from the German , by E. A. Bowring .... 1570 Hungary its History and Revolutions . With a Memoir of Kossuth from New and Authentic Sources . Hutchinson ( Colonel ) , Memoirs of , with the Siege of Latham House ...
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... Poem ) . By Aytoun 83 4475 3635 45 ..374 , 4684 Both Worlds , Is it Possible to make the Most of . By Binney 1824 Bourne ( John ) Catechism of the Steam - Engine 378 Handbook of the Steam - Engine 1825 1826 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 ...
... Poem ) . By Aytoun 83 4475 3635 45 ..374 , 4684 Both Worlds , Is it Possible to make the Most of . By Binney 1824 Bourne ( John ) Catechism of the Steam - Engine 378 Handbook of the Steam - Engine 1825 1826 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 ...
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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.
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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...
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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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