The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139 |
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Perhaps it will not be uninteresting to our readers , if we prefix to our present
periodical survey of the progress within the last few years of the library of the
British Museum and its great rivals abroad , a summary account of the libraries of
other ...
Perhaps it will not be uninteresting to our readers , if we prefix to our present
periodical survey of the progress within the last few years of the library of the
British Museum and its great rivals abroad , a summary account of the libraries of
other ...
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... and the prices , though relatively of course far beyond the present value of the
nominal sum , differed much less than is commonly imagined from those which
were current for printed books nearly a century after the invention of printing .
... and the prices , though relatively of course far beyond the present value of the
nominal sum , differed much less than is commonly imagined from those which
were current for printed books nearly a century after the invention of printing .
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... and of the admitted value of its vast and varied MS . collections , the most
reverent scholar is forced to regard its glories as of the past rather than the
present , and to recognise , however reluctantly , that , in the struggle of every -
day literary ...
... and of the admitted value of its vast and varied MS . collections , the most
reverent scholar is forced to regard its glories as of the past rather than the
present , and to recognise , however reluctantly , that , in the struggle of every -
day literary ...
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We shall see hereafter that , up to the present century , the largest European
library , as well as the library most freely accessible to students , had been
collected by a single family , and in great part by a single individual , à noble
Polish ...
We shall see hereafter that , up to the present century , the largest European
library , as well as the library most freely accessible to students , had been
collected by a single family , and in great part by a single individual , à noble
Polish ...
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The details of the purely administrative reforms have no interest for our present
purpose . We shall only advert very briefly to the important changes in the library
buildings ; to the conditions which affect the admission of readers ; to the ...
The details of the purely administrative reforms have no interest for our present
purpose . We shall only advert very briefly to the important changes in the library
buildings ; to the conditions which affect the admission of readers ; to the ...
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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.