Norton's Literary Almanac for 1852; Containing Important Literary Information; Accounts of American Libraries, Literary Necrology for the Past Year, Including Short Biographical Sketches, Miscellaneous Notices, Etc. An Annual of Interesting Facts, and a Statistical Companion

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C.B. Norton., 1852
 

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Página 47 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 68 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 185 - GLUGE (GOTTLIEB). ATLAS OF PATHOLOGICAL HISTOLOGY. Translated by Joseph Leidy, MD, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, Ac. In one vol.
Página 28 - This society was composed of some of the most respectable men of the town of Newport, at that period one of the most remarkable in the American colonies, for its wealth, learning, and public spirit.
Página 104 - Microscopical Examination of Soundings made by the US Coast Survey, off the Atlantic Coast of the United States.
Página 112 - PRICE, TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF. ROMANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY; OR, WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, IN ONE VOLUME OCTAVO, CLOTH. BY CW WEBBER. " We have rarely read a volume so full of life and enthusiasm, so capable of transporting the reader into an actor among the scenes and persons described. The volume can hardly be...
Página 19 - Previously to this, however, the Hon. Nicholas Brown had, with his wonted munificence, subscribed ten thousand dollars towards the fund. The subscription was opened, with the following conditions: 1. " The whole amount shall be invested in a permanent fund, of which the interest shall be, from time to time, appropriated exclusively to the objects stated in the resolution.
Página 185 - Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan : or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.
Página 22 - Saturdays, from 12 to 1. The members of the corporation; the president, professors, tutors, and register; all resident graduates; all the donors to the library fund; all donors to the fund for building Rhode Island Hall; and all donors to the library to the amount of $40, residing in the city of 'Providence, are entitled to the use of the library without charge.
Página 68 - God's [20 image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

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