 | Sir John Davies - 1876 - 282 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...fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Charles Jeremiah Wells - 1876 - 336 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... | |
 | Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 420 oldal
...a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of peotlt ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower...fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Westland Marston - 1876 - 434 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...books. Or, to go lower still, how much do you think the contetits of the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1876 - 632 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...their books. Or, to go lower still, how much do you thinh the contents ef the bookshelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch., j; compared... | |
 | James Payn - 1878 - 350 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...fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Thomas Kentish (pyrotechnist.) - 1878 - 304 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse.maniac, though nun ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its •winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1878 - 204 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...would fetch, as compared with the contents of its wine* cellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature lake as compared with its expenditure... | |
 | 1878 - 84 oldal
...call one a horse^maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear oj people ruining themselves by their books. Or to go...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1878 - 442 oldal
...themselves by their boohs. Or, to go lower still, hiKv mnch do you thinh the contents of the booh-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature tahe 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. 
