 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take, as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 oldal
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower st ill, how much do you think the contents of the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 144 oldal
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take, as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take, as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 268 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any one ahorsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...of the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public or private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars ? What position would its... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 144 oldal
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...lower still, how much do you think the contents of the book-shelvea of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses ; and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 oldal
...call one a horse-maniac, though men^ ruin themselves , 754 LITER ART AN A. every day by their horses ; and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | James Payn - 1876 - 430 oldal
...bibliomaniac. Rut you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars t What position would its expenditure on literature tahe as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 304 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars f What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
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If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad - a bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. 
