We are few of us put to such trial, and more the pity; for, indeed, a precious thing is all the more precious to us if it has been won by work or economy ; and if public libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of... The Poetical Works of Laman Blanchard - Seite 2von Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 359 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1887 - 444 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect: there was good in reading, as well as munching and sparkling; whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget... | |
| John Ruskin - 1887 - 908 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| John Ruskin - 1887 - 840 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| John Ruskin - 1891 - 202 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| John Ruskin - 1891 - 454 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| John Ruskin, Edwin Ginn - 1892 - 184 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 472 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...good in reading as well as in munching and sparkling ; «herons the very cheapness of literature is making even wiser people forget that if a book is worth... | |
| John Ruskin - 1894 - 448 Seiten
...libraries were hah* as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| John Ruskin - 1894 - 490 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| John Ruskin - 1895 - 184 Seiten
...libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there...whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which... | |
| |