 | John Ford - 1831 - 396 pages
...deduction. — GIFFORD. END OF VOL. I. LONDON: " BOOKS THAT YOU MAY CARRY TO THE FIRE, AND HOLD READILY IN YOUR HAND, ARE THE MOST USEFUL AFTER ALL. A MAN WILL...HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED AT BOOKS OF A LARGER SIZE, AND OF A MORE ERUDITE APPEARANCE." Dr. JoknSOtl. " Mr. Murray's Library A very excellent and... | |
 | John Ford - 1831 - 424 pages
...deduction.—GIFFORD. END OF voL. I. LONDON: " BOOKS THAT YOU MAY CARRY TO THE FIRE, AND HOLD READILY IV YOUR HAND, ARE THE MOST USEFUL AFTER ALL. A MAN WILL...HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED AT BOOKS OF A LARGER SIZE, AND OF A MORE ERUDITE APPEARANCE." Dl\ JoknSon. " Mr. Murray's Library A very excellent and always... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1831 - 452 pages
...Mr. Murray recommends me to his customers — ' that you may carry to the ' fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most ' useful after all. A man...would have ' been frightened at books of a larger size or a ' more erudite appearance.' Let me hope, then, that occasionally, whilst the younger branches... | |
 | William Ogilvie Porter - 1831 - 260 pages
...LIBRARY. " tinoks that you may carry to thejire, and hold readily in your hand are the most useful offer all. A man will often look at them, and be tempted...he would have been frightened at books of a larger «ze, and of a more erudite appearance."— DR. JOHNSON. The proprietors of the Family Library feel... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1831 - 346 pages
...LIBRARY. " Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your handr are the most useful ofier all, A man will often look at them, and be tempted...he would have been frightened at books of a larger siztyandofa more erudite appearance." — DK. JOHNSON. The proprietors or the Family Library feel themselves... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1831 - 372 pages
...carry to the foe, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will iy Cc/t look at them, and be tempted to go on, when he would have been frightened at books of a larger tizty and of a more erudite appearance."— I)K. JOHNSON. The proprietors of the Family Library feel... | |
 | John Ford - 1831 - 376 pages
... ibb% 4 " BOOKS THAT YOU MAY CARRY TO THE FIRE, AND HOLD READILY IN YOUR HAND, ARE THE MOST USEFUL AFTER ALL. A MAN WILL OFTEN LOOK AT THEM, AND BE TEMPTED TO CO ON, TV HEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED AT BOOKS OF A LARGER SIZE, AND OF A MORE ERUDITE APPEARANCE.'*... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...Espriti d'un tel; for example, Beauties of Watts, &c. &c.: " at which," said he, " a man will often look and be tempted to go on, when he would have been frightened at books of a larger size, and of a more erudite appearance."] He repeated a good many lines of Horace's Odes while we were... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pages
...Esprits d'un tel; for example, Beauties of Watts, &c. &c. : " at which," said he, " a man will often look and be tempted to go on, when he would have been frightened at books of a larger size, and of a more erudite appearance."] He repeated a good many lines of Horace's Odes while we were... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1831 - 292 pages
...READILY IN YOUR U.\M». ARE TUB MOST USEFUL AFTER ALL. A HAN WILL OFTEN LOOK AT THEM, AND BE TBMPTKD TO GO ON, WHEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED AT BOOKS OF A LARGER SIZE, AND OF A MORE ERUDITE APPEARANCE." — Dr. Jo/HlSOn. "We advisedly call the Cabinet Cyclopedia... | |
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will often look at them, and be tempted to go on, when he would have been frightened at books of a larger size, and of a more erudite appearance. 
