How to Form a Library

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A. C. Armstrong & son, 1886 - 248 頁
 

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第 46 頁 - MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
第 183 頁 - Esquire, the author of the History of the County Palatine of Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
第 47 頁 - With tears of thoughtful gratitude. My thoughts are with the dead; with them I live in long-past years; Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind.
第 69 頁 - Be it remembered in honor of the Philadelphia youth (then chiefly artificers) that in MDCCXXXI they cheerfully, at the instance of Benjamin Franklin, one of their number, instituted the Philadelphia Library which, though small at first, is become highly valuable and extensively useful, and which the walls of this edifice are now destined to contain and preserve: the first stone of whose foundation was here placed the thirty-first day of August, 1789.
第 85 頁 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
第 119 頁 - A Polyglot of Foreign. Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish.
第 109 頁 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
第 168 頁 - Perpetual Motion. Perpetuum Mobile, or Search for Self-motive Power during the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries, illustrated from various authentic sources in papers, essays, letters, paragraphs, and numerous patent specifications, with an Introductory Essay by Henry Dircks, CE, with numerous engravings of machines, crown 8vo, cloth, 10s. 6d. " A curious and interesting work. Mr. Dircks...
第 114 頁 - Cooper's Dictionary of Practical Surgery and Encyclopaedia of Surgical Science. New Edition, brought down to the present time. By SA LANE, Surgeon to St.
第 44 頁 - This little collection of Stall tracts and ballads was formed by me, when a boy, from the baskets of the travelling pedlars. Until put into its present decent binding it had such charms for the servants that it was repeatedly, and with difficulty, recovered from their clutches. It contains most of the pieces 1 Journal, Nov. 7, 1827. 2 Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. 3 The passage is not in the "Keliquiae" as published in "Harper's Magazine,

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