 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 324 oldal
...bibliomaniac.0 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...lower still, how much do you think the contents of the book shelves of the United Kingdom, public or private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of... | |
 | New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1903 - 412 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...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 of... | |
 | Henry Howard Harper - 1904 - 134 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." This is preeminently the age of collectors, and scarcely a week passes without the discovery of some... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 692 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horsemaniac,1 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... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 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 expenditure... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1909 - 318 oldal
...biblio-maniac. 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...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... | |
 | 1910 - 506 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...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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 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...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1920 - 220 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...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1928 - 316 oldal
...biblio-maniac. 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...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. 
