The Private Library : what We Do Know, what We Don't Know, what We Ought to Know about Our BooksStrangeways & sons, 1897 - 162 頁 |
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第 151 頁 - But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower still, how much do you think the contents of the book.shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its -winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious eating?
第 34 頁 - She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion.
第 152 頁 - Ossa like a wart? Do you think the rain and dew would then come down to you, in the streams from such mountains, more blessedly than they will down the mountains which God has made for you, of moss and whinstone? But it is not gold that you want to gather ! What is it ? greenbacks? No; not those neither. What is it then — is it ciphers after a capital I?
第 73 頁 - Cotton seems, from his Angler, to have found room for his whole library in his hall window ; and Cotton was a man of letters. Even when Franklin first visited London in 1724, circulating libraries were unknown there. The crowd at the booksellers' shops in Little Britain is mentioned by Roger North in his life of his brother John.
第 76 頁 - Thence away to the Strand to my bookseller's, and there staid an hour, and bought the idle, rogueish book L'escholle des Filles, which I have bought in plain binding, avoiding the buying of it better bound, because I resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand in my list of books, nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found.
第 150 頁 - If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books.
第 82 頁 - A Library is not worth anything without a Catalogue — it is a Polyphemus without any eye in his head; and you must front the difficulties, whatever they may be, of making proper Catalogues.
第 118 頁 - To those of authority and learning, he ought himself to exhibit them with all facility, courteously explaining their beauty and remarkable characteristics, the hand-writing and miniatures, but observant that such abstract no leaves. When ignorant or merely curious persons wish to see them, a glance is sufficient, if it be not some one of considerable influence. When any lock or other requisite is needed, he must take care that it be promptly provided. He must let no book be taken away but by the...
第 152 頁 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things : l — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.1 56.
第 75 頁 - I fell in to the furnishing of my new closett, and taking out the things out of my old, and I kept him with me all day, and he dined with me, and so all the afternoon till it was quite darke hanging things, that is my maps and pictures and draughts, and setting up my books, and as much as we could do, to my most extraordinary satisfaction; so that I think it will be as noble a closett as any man hath, and light enough — though, indeed, it would be better to have had a little more light.