 | James Payn - 1876 - 430 oldal
...bibliomaniac. Rut 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...the bookshelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars t What position would its expenditure... | |
 | 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...the bookshelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | 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...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | 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...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | 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...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its •winecellars ? What position would its... | |
 | 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...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its wine* cellars ? What position would its... | |
 | 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...the bookshelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1879 - 356 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...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
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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. 
