Catalogue of the Books in the Central Lending DepartmentA. Reid, 1880 - 329 sider |
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Adventures Africa America Ancient Anecdotes Antiquities Atlantic Monthly Autobiography Biographical Sketch Bishop Black's Guide Blackwood's Mag Book Britain British Capt Cassell's Century Chalmers Chambers's Information Charles Christian Chronicles Church Commentary contd Cornhill Mag Deutsche Rundschau Drama Duke Earl Education Edward Egypt Engineering English Essays France Fraser's Mag French French Revolution Geology George George III Greece Greek Handbook Henry India Ireland Irish Italy James John Journey Julius Cæsar King Lady Land Lectures Letters Literature Lives London Lord Lord Brougham Lord Lytton Lytton Macmillan's Mag Manual Mary Memoirs Metallurgy Modern Moral Napoleon Natural History Northumberland Notes Novel Oliphant Philosophy Poems Poetical Poetry Poets Political Professor Queen Reform Reign Religion Revolution Richard Robert Romance Russia Science Scotland Scott Scribner's Monthly Second Series Sermons Smith Songs Spain Story Study Tale Temple Bar Mag Thackeray Thomas Timbs Tinsleys tion translated Travels Treatise Trollope Voyage Wapentake William World
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Side 315 - He then took occasion to enlarge on the advantages of reading, and combated the idle superficial notion, that knowledge enough may be acquired in conversation. " The foundation (said he) must be laid by reading. General principles must be had from books, which, however, must be brought to the test of real life. In conversation you never get a system. What is said upon a subject is to be gathered from a hundred people. The parts of a truth, which a man gets thus, are at such a distance from each other...
Side 315 - Some relate to me the events of past ages, while others reveal to me the secrets of nature. Some teach me how to live, and others how to die. Some, by their vivacity, drive away my cares and exhilarate my spirits, while others give fortitude to my mind, and teach me the important lesson how to restrain my desires, and to depend wholly on myself. They open to me, in short, the various avenues of all the arts and sciences, and upon their information I safely rely, in all emergencies.
Side 315 - If I were not a king, I would be a University man ; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library, and to be chained together with so many good authors.
Side 317 - Travels in the Track of the Ten Thousand Greeks; a Geographical and Descriptive Account of the Expedition of Cyrus and of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, as related by Xenophon. By WF AINSWORTH, FGS, Surgeon to the late Euphrates Expedition.
Side 315 - Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Side 315 - whose society is extremely agreeable to me; they are of all ages and of every country. They have distinguished themselves both in the cabinet and in the field, and obtained high honors for their knowledge of the sciences. It is easy to gain access to them, for they are always at my service, and I admit them to my company, and dismiss them from it, whenever I please. They are never troublesome, but immediately answer every question I ask them. Some relate to me...
Side 315 - Golden volumes ! richest treasures ! Objects of delicious pleasures ! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hands in rapture seize ! Brilliant wits, and musing sages, Lights who beamed through many ages, Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory ; And now their hope of fame achieved, Dear volumes ! you have not deceived...
Side 158 - Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion derived from the Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy. By ALEXANDER KEITH, DD 37th Edition, with numerous Plates, in square 8vo.
Side 174 - LODGE'S Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, with Biographical and Historical Memoirs. 240 Portraits engraved on Steel, with the respective Biographies unabridged. 8 vols. 5*. each. LONGFELLOW'S Prose Works. With 16 full -page Wood Engravings. 5*. LOUDON'S (Mrs.) Natural History. Revised edition, by WS Dallas, FLS With numerous Woodcut Illus. $s. LOWNDES...