What is an Index?: A Few Notes on Indexes and Indexers[For the Index society] Longmans, Green, 1879 - 132 páginas |
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Alphabetical Index alphabetical order alphabetically arranged American Library Association Archæological arranged in alphabetical Athenæum Bibliography Bibliotheca Bishop Bishop of Salisbury blunders British Museum Catalogue Christian names commencement Compiled Concordance containing Indexes contents cross references Dictionary double cols double columns Duke Edinburgh Encyclopædia England English entries fifteen volumes Folio French Gentleman's Magazine Gilbert Burnet headings Henry History Horace Walpole House of Commons House of Lords inclusive Index of Authors Index of Subjects Index Society Index to Volumes Index-maker instance John leaf letter Library Journal List Literature London Lytton Medical Memoirs Museum rule Names of Persons Nichols notice Papers Parliament prefixed printed by order Proceedings proper names publication published readers Register Reports Samuel Ayscough Smith Society of London Society.-General Index specimens Statutes surname Table Tatlers Thomas Transactions unpaged Vict viii Walter De Gray Watts word Index writes
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Página 39 - TT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good ; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward.
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Página 21 - Clarissa' is not a performance to be read with eagerness, and laid aside fo: ever ; but will be occasionally consulted by the busy, the aged, and the studious...
Página 39 - Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths, through which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense...
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Página 90 - AEVI SAXONICI ; or, An Alphabetical List of the Heads of Religious Houses in England previous to the Norman Conquest, to which is prefixed a Chronological Catalogue of Contemporary Foundations. By Walter de Gray Birch. 8vo, pp. vii. and 114, cloth. 1873. 5s.
Página 30 - I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind, as the proper toil of artless industry ; a task that requires neither the light of learning, nor the activity of genius, but may be successfully performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience, and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution.
Página 43 - ... hackneyed quotation of Best, Mr Justice, his great mind, can not be omitted here, although I am unable to give any satisfactory account of its origin. It forms an excellent example of the useless references to which we have just referred, and contains as well a ludicrous misapprehension of the passage indexed, which is said to have been : Mr Justice Best said that he had a great mind to commit the man for trial.
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