 | 1888 - 848 oldal
...and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries. . . . How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public and private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?' The trade in light literature, and in cheap... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 202 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 454 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... | |
 | 1891 - 912 oldal
...and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries. . . . How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public and private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?' The trade in light literature, ami in cheap... | |
 | John Ruskin, Edwin Ginn - 1892 - 184 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... | |
 | Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 oldal
...even if true. As an example of satire take the following from Ruskin : ' If a man spends lavishly upon his library you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call a man a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you don't hear of people... | |
 | James Louis O'Neil - 1893 - 154 oldal
...their own literary possessions lightly and deliberately, with no chance of tearing or dogs' ears. . . . 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.'' 7 " Let us pity," said Henry... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 472 oldal
...саго about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on onr libraries, public or privat«, »8 compared with what we spend on our horses ? If a man...you call him mad,— a bibliomaniac. But you never call_ one a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 490 oldal
...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 448 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...spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a biblio-ruauiac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by... | |
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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. 
