| James Anson Farrer - 1879 - 424 oldal
...WINDUS'S list of Books* ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. 1 ' / say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about books ? How much...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... | |
| Charles Mills - 1879 - 440 oldal
...AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. "7 say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, cart about books? How much do you think we spend altogether...or private, as compared with what we spend on our horse*?- If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never... | |
| Eliza Lynn, Elizabeth Lynn Linton - 1879 - 400 oldal
...AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. "I say -we have despised literature ; what do -we, as a nation, cart about books ? How much do you think we spend altogether...or private, as compared with what we spend on our horse-:? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never... | |
| Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1879 - 356 oldal
...BY JOHN RUSKIN. "/ say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about books f Haw much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries,...or private, as compared with what we spend on our horse! ? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never... | |
| Bret Harte - 1879 - 364 oldal
...lay we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about loohs t Haw much do you thinh we spend altogether on our libraries, public or 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... | |
| William Cox Bennett - 1879 - 202 oldal
...spend altogether on our Kbraries, public or private, as compared with ivhat we spend on our horser ? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you 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... | |
| William Edward Armytage Axon - 1879 - 32 oldal
...Lycidas about " the pilot of the Galilean lake," and explains it word by word. He indignantly remarks : "If a man spends lavishly on his library you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call anyone a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - 1879 - 336 oldal
...Lycidas about " the pilot of the Galilean lake," and explains it word by word. He indignantly remarks : "If a man spends lavishly on his library you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call anyone a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of... | |
| Albany de Grenier Fonblanque - 1879 - 346 oldal
...say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about boohs ? How much do you thinh we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horse! ? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never... | |
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