A biographical sketch of sir Anthony PanizziAsher&Company, 1873 - 87 páginas |
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... questions that were at this time agitating Europe , and more particularly as they affected his native country . He was physically a man beyond the average stature , with a head and face that at once indicated power of no common kind ...
... questions that were at this time agitating Europe , and more particularly as they affected his native country . He was physically a man beyond the average stature , with a head and face that at once indicated power of no common kind ...
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... press . As this is a very important event in the career of Mr. Panizzi , we are the more desirous of putting the question before our readers C with as much fairness and truthfulness as we are able SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI . 21.
... press . As this is a very important event in the career of Mr. Panizzi , we are the more desirous of putting the question before our readers C with as much fairness and truthfulness as we are able SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI . 21.
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... question was simply whether a stranger should be appointed . This led him to write at once to the Principal Trustees , urging his claims , he being next in seniority to Cary ; and the result was his appointment to the Keepership . We ...
... question was simply whether a stranger should be appointed . This led him to write at once to the Principal Trustees , urging his claims , he being next in seniority to Cary ; and the result was his appointment to the Keepership . We ...
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... question of the authorship of " Junius . " To Mr. Watts was confided the duty of classi- fication and re - arrangement of the books , as . they were removed from Montague House ; and , in the performance of this duty , every book passed ...
... question of the authorship of " Junius . " To Mr. Watts was confided the duty of classi- fication and re - arrangement of the books , as . they were removed from Montague House ; and , in the performance of this duty , every book passed ...
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... questions relating to the Catalogue . It was composed of men eminent in the literary and political world , and had for its chairman the late Lord Ellesmere , who , as Lord Francis Egerton , had acted as a member of the 38 A BIOGRAPHICAL ...
... questions relating to the Catalogue . It was composed of men eminent in the literary and political world , and had for its chairman the late Lord Ellesmere , who , as Lord Francis Egerton , had acted as a member of the 38 A BIOGRAPHICAL ...
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ability admiration adopted autobiography Baber beautiful bibliographical Brescello British Museum career Carlyle Cary catalogue Charles Lamb collection connected copy Copyright Act Copyright Office delivery of publications Department of Printed distinguished dome duty Earl Russell earnest eminent energy enforce England erection feet foreign fully gentleman greatest Grenville Grenville's honour House of Commons inquiry institution interesting Italian Keeper known labours Late Principal Librarian literary literature London Lord Brougham Lord Houghton Lord Macaulay Memories ment Montague House Museum was entitled national library never occasion Oliver Cromwell opinion Panizzi's appointment Panizzi's plans Parliament Parliamentary period pleasant pleasure portrait present Principal Librarian Principal Trustees Printed Books publishers readers Reading-room referred remarks remember retire ROBERT COWTAN Royal Commissioners servant Sir Anthony Panizzi Sir David Dundas Sir Henry Ellis sketch surrounding libraries Sydney Smirke Ugo Foscolo valuable volume Watts Winter Jones writer
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Página 1 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought...
Página 1 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Página ii - The works touching books are two: first libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...
Página 26 - See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek ! Jul.
Página 84 - Society in 1880, and the Honorary Degree of DCL was conferred on him by the University of Oxford in 1881.
Página 42 - They are called the King's Pamphlets; and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice, I believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those.
Página 58 - Each person has a space of 4 feet 3 inches long. He is screened from the opposite occupant by a longitudinal division, which is fitted with a hinged desk, graduated on sloping racks, and a folding-shelf for spare books.
Página 58 - Dome-room will contain 80,000 volumes. Two lifts are placed at convenient stations for the purpose of raising the books to the level of the several gallery floors. The bookcases are of novel and simple construction, the uprights or standards being formed of malleable iron galvanized and framed together, having fillets of beech inserted between the iron to receive the brass pins upon which the shelves rest. The framework of the book-cases forms the support for the iron perforated floors of the gallery...
Página 44 - Whatever be the judgment formed on points at issue, the minutes of evidence must be admitted to contain frequent proofs of the acquirements and abilities, the manifestation of which in subordinate office led to Mr. Panizzi's promotion to that which he now holds under circumstances which, in our opinion, founded on documentary evidence, did credit to the Trustees of the day...
Página 37 - Grenville's library was most liberally rendered accessible to any person, however humble his condition of life, who could show the least cause for asking the loan of any of his precious volumes. By bequeathing the whole to his country, Mr. Grenville has secured to literary men, even after his death, that assistance, so far as relates to the use of his books, which he so generously bestowed on them in every way during his long and dignified career — the career of a man of high birth, distinguished...