The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139A. Constable, 1874 |
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... 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 times , and of the nature and circumstances of book ...
... 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 times , and of the nature and circumstances of book ...
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... 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 . It is plain that the prices relied on by Robertson and ...
... 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 . It is plain that the prices relied on by Robertson and ...
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... present lodging , the Library dates in part from 1378 , and finally from 1417 - a date anterior by many years to that of any extant library of the West . advantages , appears singularly unfruitful of such enterprise . Without 1874 . 23 ...
... present lodging , the Library dates in part from 1378 , and finally from 1417 - a date anterior by many years to that of any extant library of the West . advantages , appears singularly unfruitful of such enterprise . Without 1874 . 23 ...
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... 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 , a noble Polish ecclesiastic , Joseph Zaluski ...
... 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 , a noble Polish ecclesiastic , Joseph Zaluski ...
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... 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 long- expected catalogue ; and in general to the present condition ...
... 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 long- expected catalogue ; and in general to the present condition ...
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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.