The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139 |
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Both these extremes , no doubt , especially the first , are exaggerated types of the
relative degree of accessibility of books in their respective periods ; but , even
when every due allowance has been made , the two periods are found to be ...
Both these extremes , no doubt , especially the first , are exaggerated types of the
relative degree of accessibility of books in their respective periods ; but , even
when every due allowance has been made , the two periods are found to be ...
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... when tested by actual enumeration , could think of accepting as conclusive
evidence that the Alexandrian Library contained 700 , 000 volumes , the
unsupported assertion of a single foreigner , writing long after the period to which
he refers .
... when tested by actual enumeration , could think of accepting as conclusive
evidence that the Alexandrian Library contained 700 , 000 volumes , the
unsupported assertion of a single foreigner , writing long after the period to which
he refers .
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The controversies about the history of learning and the diffusion of books in the
medieval period , have naturally influenced the views of those who have written
upon the medieval libraries , and especially upon the monastic libraries of the ...
The controversies about the history of learning and the diffusion of books in the
medieval period , have naturally influenced the views of those who have written
upon the medieval libraries , and especially upon the monastic libraries of the ...
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For a long period the monastic bodies stand all but alone as bookcollectors and
book - preservers ; and if it be true in some instances that their function was
mainly that of passive instruments in handing on to posterity the collections of
ancient ...
For a long period the monastic bodies stand all but alone as bookcollectors and
book - preservers ; and if it be true in some instances that their function was
mainly that of passive instruments in handing on to posterity the collections of
ancient ...
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... Llishes have * Serapeum : Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswissenschaft , vol . for 1852
, · p . 261 . + History of Agriculture and Prices in England ( 1359 – 1798 ) . By J . E
. Thorold Rogers . Oxford , 1866 , vol . i . p . 646 . period , in an inventory of ...
... Llishes have * Serapeum : Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswissenschaft , vol . for 1852
, · p . 261 . + History of Agriculture and Prices in England ( 1359 – 1798 ) . By J . E
. Thorold Rogers . Oxford , 1866 , vol . i . p . 646 . period , in an inventory of ...
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Էջ 570 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Էջ 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Էջ 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Էջ 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Էջ 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Էջ 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Էջ 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Էջ 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Էջ 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.