 | Deborah A. Robertson, American Library Association. Public Programs Office - 2005 - 126 oldal
...and your library will quickly spread among other potential presenters. Funding for Cultural Programs What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? — JOHN RUSKIN Listening to the Prairie Exhibitions Events at the Glendale Public Library Glendale... | |
 | John Ruskin - 2006 - 193 oldal
...I will prove their truth to you, clause by clause. 32. I. I say first we have despised literature. What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...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 still, how... | |
 | Steven Price - 2006 - 400 oldal
...lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. — William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 259-300 What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared what we spend on our horses? — John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies Some Moorish barb was that mustang's... | |
 | Thomas Meagher - 2007 - 812 oldal
...O Lord to You we give thanks that in time Polish horses . . . defeat Nazi tanks. — SAIOM SHRIVER What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? —JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) [M]any are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and... | |
 | Vermont. Free Public Library Commission - 1906 - 530 oldal
...ornaments, everything, is an object of greater care and expense than the library. — CF Richardson, How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries,...horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books.— John Ruskin. 35 anks for... | |
 | 1884 - 1112 oldal
...CHATTO & WINDUS'S Catalogue. MR. RUSKIN ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS, " I say we have despised literature; what do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...call him mad— a 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... | |
 | Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1866 - 610 oldal
...the scientific man " comes for a bone or a crust to us, that is another story." Or when he says, " If a man spends lavishly on his library, you " call...horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by • " horses." Here are some of these bitterly expressed truths:— Neither does a great nation send... | |
 | 1896 - 682 oldal
...from John Ruskin's " Sesame and Lilies '' : — " I say we have despised literature; what do we, as 11 nation, care about books ? How much do you think we...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses f If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call... | |
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What do we, as a nation, care about books ? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses ? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. 
