Catalogue of My English LibraryC. Whittingham, 1853 - 107 pages |
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... Authors . Accordingly I have endeavoured to make such a selection from the multitude of poets , dramatists , historians , philosophers , metaphysicians , essayists , etc. from the earliest to the present time , as may form the basis of ...
... Authors . Accordingly I have endeavoured to make such a selection from the multitude of poets , dramatists , historians , philosophers , metaphysicians , essayists , etc. from the earliest to the present time , as may form the basis of ...
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... authors . Hence it may perhaps be of some use as a convenient book of reference to librarians , editors , professors , stu- dents , critics and other literary persons who do not possess the books ... author , without re- vi Introduction .
... authors . Hence it may perhaps be of some use as a convenient book of reference to librarians , editors , professors , stu- dents , critics and other literary persons who do not possess the books ... author , without re- vi Introduction .
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Henry Stevens (Jr.) given the best editions of each author , without re- gard to cost , or whether or not the edition be still procurable . It is economy in the long run , as well as a luxury in the short , for those who can afford it ...
Henry Stevens (Jr.) given the best editions of each author , without re- gard to cost , or whether or not the edition be still procurable . It is economy in the long run , as well as a luxury in the short , for those who can afford it ...
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... authors and to insert twenty others of better stand- ing in their places , promising to exclude in my next impression any author who should receive more than five blackballs , and to add any one who should receive more than five votes ...
... authors and to insert twenty others of better stand- ing in their places , promising to exclude in my next impression any author who should receive more than five blackballs , and to add any one who should receive more than five votes ...
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... copyright . Yet we are always bragging of Shakespeare , Spenser , Bacon , Milton , and all other English authors pub- lished prior to the year 1776 , as belonging as much to us as to England ! Then , Jonathan , X Introduction .
... copyright . Yet we are always bragging of Shakespeare , Spenser , Bacon , Milton , and all other English authors pub- lished prior to the year 1776 , as belonging as much to us as to England ! Then , Jonathan , X Introduction .
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Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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