Literature, its rise, progress, fortunes and advantages, an address |
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... interesting fact is ascertained that the Greek , Latin , Teutonic , and Scandinavian races derived the term book from the material employed in its early manufacture . The early forms of books were various . The ancient papyrus was wound ...
... interesting fact is ascertained that the Greek , Latin , Teutonic , and Scandinavian races derived the term book from the material employed in its early manufacture . The early forms of books were various . The ancient papyrus was wound ...
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... interesting account of the papyrus and mode of obtaining paper from it . He says , " When they manufac- ture paper from it , they divide the stem by means of a kind of needle into thin plates or laminæ , each of which is as large as the ...
... interesting account of the papyrus and mode of obtaining paper from it . He says , " When they manufac- ture paper from it , they divide the stem by means of a kind of needle into thin plates or laminæ , each of which is as large as the ...
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... interesting : - " It was a library , whose walks , galleries , and cabinets were open to all visitors ; and the ingenious Greeks , when at leisure , resorted to this abode of the muses , to hold literary conversations , in which ...
... interesting : - " It was a library , whose walks , galleries , and cabinets were open to all visitors ; and the ingenious Greeks , when at leisure , resorted to this abode of the muses , to hold literary conversations , in which ...
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... interesting chapter might be written on the fortunes of books , and of the prices given by their purchasers and obtained by their authors . Strange , stranger than fiction , have been the vicissi- tudes through which books have passed ...
... interesting chapter might be written on the fortunes of books , and of the prices given by their purchasers and obtained by their authors . Strange , stranger than fiction , have been the vicissi- tudes through which books have passed ...
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... interesting to state here the sums ultimately obtained for Caxton's two great works . His earliest book , " The Recueil des Histoires de Troye , " was sold in 1812 , at the Roxburgh sale , for £ 1100 , and one of the copies of his work ...
... interesting to state here the sums ultimately obtained for Caxton's two great works . His earliest book , " The Recueil des Histoires de Troye , " was sold in 1812 , at the Roxburgh sale , for £ 1100 , and one of the copies of his work ...
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Страница 44 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Страница 31 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter 1, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Страница 22 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Страница 48 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other...
Страница 44 - That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Страница 13 - 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 master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Страница 21 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Страница 12 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Страница 46 - Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once ; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again ; precious ones, never.
Страница 40 - And the Lord answered me, and said, "Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.