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... Society . " For list of Books presented , see end of the Catalogue . The Committee express the hope that the Library may be extensively used by all classes of the Community , so that the great object for which the " Free Libraries ' Act ...
... Society . " For list of Books presented , see end of the Catalogue . The Committee express the hope that the Library may be extensively used by all classes of the Community , so that the great object for which the " Free Libraries ' Act ...
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... Society in . By Martineau 4755 .884 , 885 South , Travels in 5 .886 , 887 Air , The . By Mudie 4502 Wanderings in . By Waterton Twenty - one Years ' Experience in the South- 3222 Akenside ( Mark ) Poetical Works Alaska , Travels in . By ...
... Society in . By Martineau 4755 .884 , 885 South , Travels in 5 .886 , 887 Air , The . By Mudie 4502 Wanderings in . By Waterton Twenty - one Years ' Experience in the South- 3222 Akenside ( Mark ) Poetical Works Alaska , Travels in . By ...
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... Societies ... Anson ( George , Lord ) Memoirs . By Barrow .... Ansted ( D. T. ) Applications of Geology to Arts and Manufactures .... Great Stone Book of Nature .... and Latham ( R. G. ) Channel Islands Antipodes , Our . By Mundy ...
... Societies ... Anson ( George , Lord ) Memoirs . By Barrow .... Ansted ( D. T. ) Applications of Geology to Arts and Manufactures .... Great Stone Book of Nature .... and Latham ( R. G. ) Channel Islands Antipodes , Our . By Mundy ...
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... Society and People of Mark 1845 Borneo 183 Ride Across a Continent 729 1819 Convalescent ; or , Rambles and Adventures ... -Life Here and There ; or , Sketches of Society and Adventure .... 1846 Bracebridge Hall . By Irving . 1833 ...
... Society and People of Mark 1845 Borneo 183 Ride Across a Continent 729 1819 Convalescent ; or , Rambles and Adventures ... -Life Here and There ; or , Sketches of Society and Adventure .... 1846 Bracebridge Hall . By Irving . 1833 ...
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... Society ....... Posthumous Works : - 306 Sartor Resartus ; and Lectures on Heroes ..... 776 Carne ( John ) Lives of Eminent Missionaries , Protestant and Catholic .. 664 Vol . 1. Eliot , Swartz , Egede , Kiermander , Hocker , and Antes ...
... Society ....... Posthumous Works : - 306 Sartor Resartus ; and Lectures on Heroes ..... 776 Carne ( John ) Lives of Eminent Missionaries , Protestant and Catholic .. 664 Vol . 1. Eliot , Swartz , Egede , Kiermander , Hocker , and Antes ...
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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...
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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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