The English Gentleman's Library Manual: Or, A Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature; Accompanied with Original Notices, Biographical and Critical, of Authors and BooksW. Goodhugh, 1827 - 392 pages |
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... editions des livres ainsi que " leur degré de merite et de rareté . Quelle tâche " importante et difficile ! et pour être bien remplie , a ( 6 quels bons esprits , a quels hommes éclairés elle doit " être confiée . " Should this attempt ...
... editions des livres ainsi que " leur degré de merite et de rareté . Quelle tâche " importante et difficile ! et pour être bien remplie , a ( 6 quels bons esprits , a quels hommes éclairés elle doit " être confiée . " Should this attempt ...
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... edition was printed a few years since at Oxford , with bibliographical notes by Dr. Cotton . The late Bishop Barrington , at the end of his vo- lume of Sermons and Charges , gives some valuable advice . At the end of the Preacher , a ...
... edition was printed a few years since at Oxford , with bibliographical notes by Dr. Cotton . The late Bishop Barrington , at the end of his vo- lume of Sermons and Charges , gives some valuable advice . At the end of the Preacher , a ...
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... editions of the Bible , by taking a number of additional references , particularly from a Scotch edition , of which the Vice - Chancellor lent him a copy . Such of them The publication of Tindal and Coverdale's translations of the Bible ...
... editions of the Bible , by taking a number of additional references , particularly from a Scotch edition , of which the Vice - Chancellor lent him a copy . Such of them The publication of Tindal and Coverdale's translations of the Bible ...
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... edition . Dr. Jahn , Catholic Archbishop of Vienna , in a dissertation recommend . ing the study of the Scriptures ... editions of the scrip- tures , and writers of criticisms upon them , the reader must refer to the excellent work of ...
... edition . Dr. Jahn , Catholic Archbishop of Vienna , in a dissertation recommend . ing the study of the Scriptures ... editions of the scrip- tures , and writers of criticisms upon them , the reader must refer to the excellent work of ...
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... . Stackhouse , a new edition , with important additions by Bishop Gleig , 3 vols . 4to . 1817 . Works of Commentators and Writers on the Criticism of the THEOLOGY . 5 Works of Commentators and Writers on the Criticism of the Scriptures,
... . Stackhouse , a new edition , with important additions by Bishop Gleig , 3 vols . 4to . 1817 . Works of Commentators and Writers on the Criticism of the THEOLOGY . 5 Works of Commentators and Writers on the Criticism of the Scriptures,
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Page 105 - —Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure, and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : what is more is fame, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concern,
Page 140 - only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 29 - The common remark as to the utility of reading history having been made.— Johnson. We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the colouring, all the philosophy of history, is conjecture.
Page 96 - 4s, the second edition, corrected, of the Life of Andrew Melville, containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland, during the latter part of the Sixteenth and beginning of the Seventeenth Century, with an Appendix,
Page 68 - another person enter the house. "This (said Dryden) is Tonson; you will take care not to depart before he goes away, for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him, and if you leave me unprotected, I shall suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt
Page 145 - a sufficient price too when it was sold, for then the fame of Goldsmith bad not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his Traveller; and the bookseller had such faint hopes of profit by his bargain, that he kept the manuscript by him a long time, and did not publish it till after the Traveller had appeared.
Page 250 - was an extraordinary misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of Paradise Lost; " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath " published a tedious poem on the fall of man; if "its length be not considered a merit, it has no "other.
Page 285 - tombs of knights and high born dames of gorgeous workmanship, with their effigies in coloured marble. On every side the eye was struck with some instance of aspiring mortality; some haughty memorial which human pride had erected over its kindred dust, in this temple of the most humble of all religions. The
Page 69 - as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits
Page 137 - Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose: before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word, or an Insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded.