 | 1890 - 384 oldal
...grammar. LITERATURE IN ENGLAND. ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of men ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower still, how much do you think the contents of the book shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1884 - 434 oldal
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any 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... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 oldal
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any 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... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 oldal
...horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people raining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower still,...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... | |
 | 1884 - 532 oldal
...horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people raining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower still,...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1884 - 234 oldal
...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. . . . We talk of food for the mind, as of food for 1 Sesame and Lilies. the body: now, a good book... | |
 | 1885 - 248 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any 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. — RUSKIN, Sesame and Lilies, AN INDIAN ASTROLOGICAL ALMANAC. [HE following interesting notice of... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1886 - 212 oldal
...bibliomaniac. 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 books. . . . We talk of food for the mind, as of food for 1 Sesame and Lilies. the body: now, a good book... | |
 | 1887 - 444 oldal
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any 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. We talk of food for the mind, as of food for the body: now, a good book contains such food inexhaustibly;... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 908 oldal
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any 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 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. 
