A biographical sketch of sir Anthony PanizziAsher&Company, 1873 - 87 páginas |
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... referred to . I beg that it may be distinctly understood that I have no other authority for anything I have advanced in either this or my former work , than that I have taken the best means within my reach of gleaning the fullest and ...
... referred to . I beg that it may be distinctly understood that I have no other authority for anything I have advanced in either this or my former work , than that I have taken the best means within my reach of gleaning the fullest and ...
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... referred to by our great poet . We have arrived at this conviction after a somewhat close observation , extending over a period of nearly forty years . An official connection with Sir Anthony Panizzi from the year 1835 will give the ...
... referred to by our great poet . We have arrived at this conviction after a somewhat close observation , extending over a period of nearly forty years . An official connection with Sir Anthony Panizzi from the year 1835 will give the ...
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... referred to , it was a matter for congratulation that a Roman Catholic should succeed to an appointment made by the three Principal Trustees of the British Museum , all of whom were Churchmen , and one SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI . 17.
... referred to , it was a matter for congratulation that a Roman Catholic should succeed to an appointment made by the three Principal Trustees of the British Museum , all of whom were Churchmen , and one SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI . 17.
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... referred to . They say , in their Report to Parliament : " We have had occasion , in the course of our inquiry , to ascertain the prevalence among many persons of an impression which attributes to Mr. Panizzi , not only the adoption of ...
... referred to . They say , in their Report to Parliament : " We have had occasion , in the course of our inquiry , to ascertain the prevalence among many persons of an impression which attributes to Mr. Panizzi , not only the adoption of ...
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... referred for examination by Mr. Panizzi at the time , said " that they con- tained every error that could possibly be committed . " Oh ! one is weary of hearing what are deemed by some smart things that are said about the Museum ...
... referred for examination by Mr. Panizzi at the time , said " that they con- tained every error that could possibly be committed . " Oh ! one is weary of hearing what are deemed by some smart things that are said about the Museum ...
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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...