 | 1884 - 532 oldal
...our feelings, if you would recognise our presence." . . . I say first we have despised literature. What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do Y you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend... | |
 | 1885 - 248 oldal
...copies in Wolfenbiittel of this rare edition. — Quarterly Review, Jan. 1879. " BIBLIOMANIAC." — If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call...horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. — RUSKIN, Sesame and Lilies,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 840 oldal
...longer. I will prove their truth to you, clause by clause. 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1886 - 212 oldal
...compared with what we spend on our horses ? " asks another enthusiastic lover of books, already quoted. " If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call...But you never call any one a horsemaniac, though men rain themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their... | |
 | 1887 - 444 oldal
...history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life." "How much do you think we spend altogether on our...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?" asks another enthusiastic lover of books, already quoted. "If a man spends lavishly on his library,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1886 - 216 oldal
...history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life." "How much do you think we spend altogether on our...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses ? " asks another enthusiastic lover of books, already quoted. " If a man spends lavishly on his library,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 840 oldal
...longer. I will prove their truth to you, clause by clause. 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 908 oldal
...longer. I will prove their truth to you, clause by clause. 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... | |
 | 1888 - 508 oldal
...entitled "King's Treasures," enters his protest against the English people despising literature. Says he: "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... | |
 | 1888 - 576 oldal
...it frequently. In a sermou on " The Hiding Place," occur the following questions : — Again : — " What do we, as a nation, care about books ? How much...spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, aa compared with what we spend on our horses ?" — Rutkin. (ei By Ellipsis, or the omission of one... | |
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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. 
