A biographical sketch of sir Anthony PanizziAsher&Company, 1873 - 87 páginas |
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... valuable evidence , comprising his experiences in the Continental libraries , and suggesting many important im- provements in the library , which were afterwards carried out . We should not omit to mention that Mr. Panizzi made a ...
... valuable evidence , comprising his experiences in the Continental libraries , and suggesting many important im- provements in the library , which were afterwards carried out . We should not omit to mention that Mr. Panizzi made a ...
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Robert Cowtan. is the most valuable and reliable mass of infor- mation on the national library at that period that is anywhere to be found . One of the recommendations of the report to the House of Commons by this Committee was to the ...
Robert Cowtan. is the most valuable and reliable mass of infor- mation on the national library at that period that is anywhere to be found . One of the recommendations of the report to the House of Commons by this Committee was to the ...
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... what it now is , and who are justly entitled to grateful remembrance . Mr. Edwards is a man of con- siderable ability , and is the author of many interesting and valuable works ; one of which is , SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI . 29.
... what it now is , and who are justly entitled to grateful remembrance . Mr. Edwards is a man of con- siderable ability , and is the author of many interesting and valuable works ; one of which is , SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI . 29.
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Robert Cowtan. interesting and valuable works ; one of which is , Lives of the Founders of the British Museum ; with Notices of its Chief Augmenters and other Benefactors - 1570-1870 . This gentleman retired from the service of the ...
Robert Cowtan. interesting and valuable works ; one of which is , Lives of the Founders of the British Museum ; with Notices of its Chief Augmenters and other Benefactors - 1570-1870 . This gentleman retired from the service of the ...
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... valuable as these . " We believe the real cause of Mr. Carlyle's anger was , that each of these volumes , containing from ten to a dozen separate tracts , was not gone over by a Museum official , and those relating to Cromwell selected ...
... valuable as these . " We believe the real cause of Mr. Carlyle's anger was , that each of these volumes , containing from ten to a dozen separate tracts , was not gone over by a Museum official , and those relating to Cromwell selected ...
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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...