Notices of public libraries in the United States of America, pr. as an appendix to the 4th annual report of the board of regents of the Smithsonian inst. (Smithsonian reports). |
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500 volumes Academy alphabetical American annual increase annum appropriated association Athenæum Bibliotheca Sacra books are arranged Books are lent Boston Boston Athenæum Brown University cabinet catalogue was printed consult the library dollars donations edifice engravings entitled erected expenditure for books feet high Franklin Hall Historical Society hour incorporated institution January legislature libra librarian Library Company library contains library is open library occupies library room library was commenced library was founded manuscripts maps and charts Massachusetts Mercantile Library number of volumes o'clock a. m. officers open daily open every day pages 8vo pamphlets permanent fund persons possesses present president printed catalogue Professor proprietors public library published purchase of books reading-room secretary Seminary shelves Smithsonian Institution societies of students Society Library subscribers subscription take out books tion trustees University vols vols.-Founded vols.-The college library vols.-The library week William York York Society Library
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第 11 頁 - To discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general, and of this State in particular.
第 184 頁 - ... the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws...
第 56 頁 - In 1806 the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the spontaneous vote of the University of Glasgow; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the National Institute of France.
第 52 頁 - I had no professor or teacher to guide me ; but I had two noble places of study. One was yonder beautiful edifice, now so frequented and so useful as a public library, then so deserted that I spent day after day and sometimes week after week amidst its dusty volumes, without interruption from a single visitor.
第 89 頁 - Desiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, and to contribute to the advancement of useful knowledge and the general good of society, I do, by this codicil, appropriate four hundred thousand dollars out of my residuary estate to the establishment of a public library in the city of New York.
第 117 頁 - upon motion, ordered that the librarian furnish the gentlemen who are to meet in congress in this city, with such books as they may have occasion for during their sitting, taking a receipt for them...
第 94 頁 - The students were in consequence dispersed, the library and apparatus were deposited in the City Hall or elsewhere, and the college edifice was converted into a military hospital. Almost all the apparatus, and a large proportion of the books belonging to the college, were wholly lost to...
第 89 頁 - The said Library is to be accessible at all reasonable hours and times for general use, free of expense to persons resorting thereto, subject only to such control and regulations as the trustees may from time to time exercise and establish for general convenience.
第 70 頁 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony...
第 35 頁 - Books, and also the English statutes, as well as the principal treatises in American and English law, besides a large collection of Scotch, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and other foreign law, and a very ample collection of the best editions of the Roman or civil law, together with the works of the most celebrated commentators upon that law.