The Library and Its Contents: Reprints of Papers and AddressesHarriet Price Sawyer H.W. Wilson Company, 1925 - 471 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accession advantage alphabetical American Library Association appear arrangement best books better bibliographies biography book selection books for children Boston Athenæum Boston Public Library boys brary card catalog cata cent character child children's books children's literature circulation close classification collection copies cost Decimal classification desirable Dewey dictionary divisions drawer editions entries fiction foreign girls give given immoral important Institute interest John Crerar Library knowledge librarian LIBRARY JOURNAL Library of Congress literary literature mark means method mind Miss moral nature nature books never novels paper person picture books possible practical Pratt Institute printed cards public library published purchase question readers reference rule scheme selection of books shelf shelf-list shelves small library stories subdivision subject headings things tion traveling library volumes wants word written York State Library
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 122 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
Seite 128 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Seite 121 - Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment: All thy wants are well supplied.
Seite 49 - Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them — almost all women;— a vast number of clever hard-headed men. Why, one of the most learned physicians in England said to me only yesterday, " I have just read So-and-so for the second time" (naming one of Jones's exquisite fictions).
Seite 17 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 102 - How beautiful she is] How fair She lies within those arms, that press Her form with many a soft caress Of tenderness and watchful care!
Seite 66 - Still, culture is indispensably necessary, and culture is reading; but reading with a purpose to guide it, and with system. He does a good work who does anything to help this ; indeed, it is the one essential service now to be rendered to education.
Seite 122 - Yet to read the shameful story How the Jews abused their King, How they served the Lord of Glory, Makes me angry while I sing.
Seite 49 - A good story has created many an oasis in many an otherwise arid life. Many-sidedness of interest makes for good morals, and millions of our fellows step through the pages of a story book into a broader world than their nature and their circumstances ever permit them to visit. If anything is to stay the narrowing and hardening process which specialization of learning, specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among...
Seite 17 - God's [20 image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.