Catalogue of My English LibraryC. Whittingham, 1853 - 107 pages |
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... earliest to the present time , as may form the basis of a good miscellaneous library . How well I have succeeded you will see by casting your quick eye over the following pages . First let me tell you that it was intended not to exceed ...
... earliest to the present time , as may form the basis of a good miscellaneous library . How well I have succeeded you will see by casting your quick eye over the following pages . First let me tell you that it was intended not to exceed ...
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... early English litera- ture , of which we are ever and everlastingly boast- ing as ours by inheritance . I have paid an import duty of seventy - five dollars upon a single volume of Shakespeare , the first folio edition of 1623 , ori ...
... early English litera- ture , of which we are ever and everlastingly boast- ing as ours by inheritance . I have paid an import duty of seventy - five dollars upon a single volume of Shakespeare , the first folio edition of 1623 , ori ...
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... earliest period to the year 1616 . Edited from Manuscripts with a Translation and copious Notes , by J. O'Donovan , 7 vols . Hodges & Smith , Dublin , 1851 , 4to . ANNUAL Register , from the beginning in 1758 to 1853 , with Index to ...
... earliest period to the year 1616 . Edited from Manuscripts with a Translation and copious Notes , by J. O'Donovan , 7 vols . Hodges & Smith , Dublin , 1851 , 4to . ANNUAL Register , from the beginning in 1758 to 1853 , with Index to ...
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... Early and Middle Ages , with numerous illustrations , 9 vols . London , 1844-52 , 8vo . ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE . Proceedings of the Ar- chæological Institute at Winchester , in 1845 ; York , in 1846 ; Norwich , in 1847 ; Lincoln , in ...
... Early and Middle Ages , with numerous illustrations , 9 vols . London , 1844-52 , 8vo . ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE . Proceedings of the Ar- chæological Institute at Winchester , in 1845 ; York , in 1846 ; Norwich , in 1847 ; Lincoln , in ...
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... , fcp . 8vo . BALLADS . Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland , edited by R. J. King , Pickering , 1842 , fcp . 8vo . B.A. BARR ( J. ) . Anglican Church Architecture , with 6 Catalogue of my.
... , fcp . 8vo . BALLADS . Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland , edited by R. J. King , Pickering , 1842 , fcp . 8vo . B.A. BARR ( J. ) . Anglican Church Architecture , with 6 Catalogue of my.
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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, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Page 13 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
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Page 36 - Essays : On Decision of Character ; on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself ; on the epithet Romantic ; on one aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion.
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Page 18 - The History of Scotland from the Revolution to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection (1689-1748).