The Monthly Notes of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, 2. köideTrubner & Company, 1881 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adopted alphabetical amendment annual meeting Annual Subscription appointed arranged Author Authorised Bill Birmingham BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE British Museum Buddhism catalogue Chess Clause cloth collection College contains copies Council Crown 8vo Demy 8vo district EDGAR QUINET Edinburgh Edition elected English Fcap Free Libraries Association Free Public Library French Geological German Gray's Gray's Inn History Illustrations Imperial Gazetteer including postage issued JOHN Journal KARL HILLEBRAND languages late Librarian Library Acts literary literature LL.D Ludgate Hill Manchester Mencius Messrs Metropolitan Free Libraries Monthly Meeting MONTHLY NOTES names Nicholson Office original Oxford paper Philosophy Plates Post 8vo present President printed proclamation proposed published RALPH RICHARDSON ratepayers readers reading-room READY reference Royal Royal Asiatic Society Sanskrit Second Secretary sewed Society Statistical Survey Statistics Survey Talmud TEDDER tion Translated Treasurer TRÜBNER United Kingdom volumes vote of thanks WALFORD WELCH William Caxton
Popular passages
Page 89 - HINDU PHILOSOPHY. THE SANKHYA KARIKA OF IS'WARA KRISHNA. An Exposition of the System of Kapila, with an Appendix on the Nyaya and Vais'eshika Systems. BY JOHN DAVIES, MA (Cantab.), MRAS The system of Kapila contains nearly all that India has produced in the department of pure philosophy.
Page 6 - THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI , &c.
Page 75 - Muhammed, Er-Rumi. Book the First. Together with some Account of the Life and Acts of the Author, of his Ancestors, and of his Descendants. Illustrated by a selection of Characteristic Anecdotes as collected by their Historian Mevlana Shemsu-'d-Din Ahmed, El Eflaki El Arifi. Translated, and the Poetry Versified by James W.
Page 46 - The value and importance of this volume consist in the fact that scarcely a single extract is given in its pages but throws some light, direct or refracted, upon those Scriptures which are the common heritage of Jew and Christian alike.
Page 7 - History of the High and Mighty Prince Henry, Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles and Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, Great Lord of the Cantons of Islington, Kentish Town, Paddington, and Knightsbridge, Knight of the most Heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the same. Who reigned and died, A;D. 1594.
Page 20 - ... in so concise and handy a form as this volume a general idea of the Talmud is a boon to Christians at least." — Times, " This is a new volume of the ' Oriental Series,' and its peculiar and popular character will make it attractive to general readers.
Page 160 - Vol. II. COINS OF THE JEWS. Being a History of the Jewish Coinage and Money in the Old and New Testaments.
Page 20 - THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON (Son of Sennacherib), KING OF ASSYRIA, BC 681-668. Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets in the British Museum Collection ; together with a Grammatical Analysis of each Word, Explanations of the Ideographs by Extracts from the Bi-Lingual Syllabaries, and List of Eponyms, &c.
Page 124 - I owe a debt of inestimable gratitude. Feeling about in uncertainty for the ground, and finding everywhere shifting sands, Feuerbach cast a sudden blaze into the darkness, and disclosed to me the way.
Page 135 - Vol. II. Coins of the Jews. Being a History of the Jewish Coinage and Money in the Old and New Testaments.