The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 139A. Constable, 1874 |
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... interest of that higher class of readers whose wants mainly a great library must aim at supplying , to exclude , by fixing a limit of age , the ' rush of young men from University and King's Colleges to ' the presses that contain the ...
... interest of that higher class of readers whose wants mainly a great library must aim at supplying , to exclude , by fixing a limit of age , the ' rush of young men from University and King's Colleges to ' the presses that contain the ...
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... interest , costs but two solidi per sextern ; and a MS . of the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great and other historical treatises is marked at the same rate . The ponderous theological treatises in use in the University schools , such ...
... interest , costs but two solidi per sextern ; and a MS . of the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great and other historical treatises is marked at the same rate . The ponderous theological treatises in use in the University schools , such ...
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... interest in his native literature , not only added to its store of Greek fathers and other Greek writers , but encouraged the transla- tion of the Latin fathers into Greek for the use of his fellow- countrymen . On the removal of the ...
... interest in his native literature , not only added to its store of Greek fathers and other Greek writers , but encouraged the transla- tion of the Latin fathers into Greek for the use of his fellow- countrymen . On the removal of the ...
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... interest , sacred and profane , too easily loses the idea of a great library . It is hard to realise to oneself the presence within those gilded and decorated panels of so many of those literary treasures to which the world is indebted ...
... interest , sacred and profane , too easily loses the idea of a great library . It is hard to realise to oneself the presence within those gilded and decorated panels of so many of those literary treasures to which the world is indebted ...
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... interest in comparison with the other great libraries of the modern world . The administration of the Library was remodelled in accor- dance with republican ideas . For the quasi - monarchical go- vernment of the chief librarian , was ...
... interest in comparison with the other great libraries of the modern world . The administration of the Library was remodelled in accor- dance with republican ideas . For the quasi - monarchical go- vernment of the chief librarian , was ...
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Seite 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?
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.