A Biographical Sketch of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., LL.D., Etc., Late Principal Librarian, British MuseumAsher, 1873 - 87 páginas |
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... respect with a copy from the most characteristic of the por- traits that have been recently taken of Sir ANTHONY PANIZZI , which my friend , Mr. Stephen Thompson , has reproduced by the Woodbury process . With these few introductory ...
... respect with a copy from the most characteristic of the por- traits that have been recently taken of Sir ANTHONY PANIZZI , which my friend , Mr. Stephen Thompson , has reproduced by the Woodbury process . With these few introductory ...
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... respecting them , which may be seen in the appendices attached to the report and evidence of the Commission . These documentary particulars extend over more than fourteen hundred printed folio pages ; and we may safely affirm that this ...
... respecting them , which may be seen in the appendices attached to the report and evidence of the Commission . These documentary particulars extend over more than fourteen hundred printed folio pages ; and we may safely affirm that this ...
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... respect to the system and form of the catalogue , whatever be its defects , Mr. Panizzi can be charged with nothing further than the constant approval and acceptance of one leading principle - that of fulness and accuracy— suggested on ...
... respect to the system and form of the catalogue , whatever be its defects , Mr. Panizzi can be charged with nothing further than the constant approval and acceptance of one leading principle - that of fulness and accuracy— suggested on ...
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... respecting it . The principal apartment is the Reading - room , which is circular . The dome is a hundred and forty feet in diameter , and its height a hundred and six feet . The diameter of the lantern is forty feet . The dome of the ...
... respecting it . The principal apartment is the Reading - room , which is circular . The dome is a hundred and forty feet in diameter , and its height a hundred and six feet . The diameter of the lantern is forty feet . The dome of the ...
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... respect , and Mr. Panizzi was appointed to succeed him as Principal Librarian ; or , in other words , as the chief officer or administrator of the whole Museum , on the 6th of March following , being about a month before the completion ...
... respect , and Mr. Panizzi was appointed to succeed him as Principal Librarian ; or , in other words , as the chief officer or administrator of the whole Museum , on the 6th of March following , being about a month before the completion ...
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ability admiration adopted autobiography Baber beautiful bibliographical Brescello British Museum Canterbury 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 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 - 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 endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
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 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 70 - A Reading-Room, of ample dimensions, might have stood in the centre, and been surrounded on all four sides by galleries for the books, communicating with each other and lighted from the top." A little further on, however, he half retracts his own suggestion, remarking, " So much has been expended on the great quadrangle, that it might seem barbarous to propose filling up the square, as ought to have been originally done." The grand conception of the cupola, by which architectural effect...
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...