 The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. But they may be shared, they may be distributed,...  Library Journal - Página 10editado por - 1886Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Russell Lowell - 1886 - 284 páginas
...of scholarship, the benignities of literature defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be...doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 páginas
...scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be...doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 páginas
...schplarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be...doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims... | |
 | Brooks Library, Brattleboro, Vt - 1887 - 68 páginas
...scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth, or rust. As they cannot be...public library to perform these beneficent functions." As the terms of the will imply, the town is to maintain this building and furnish it with books, the... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 páginas
...scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. 3272 Lowell : Address, Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 22, 1885. Books and Libraries. A nation's literature is... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 338 páginas
...of scholarship, the benignities of literature defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be...doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 398 páginas
...of scholarship, the benignities of literature defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be...doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 334 páginas
...of scholarship, the benignities of literature defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be...and office of a free public library to perform these beneIicent functions. " Books," says Wordsworth, " are a real world," and he was thinking, doubtless,... | |
 | 1891 - 432 páginas
...scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be...functions. " Books," says Wordsworth, " are a real world," 3 and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however... | |
 | 1891 - 238 páginas
...outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach cf thief or time or rust. As they cannot be inherited. s¿ they cannot be alienated. But they may be shared,...and office of a free public library to perform these benwolent functions." — LOWELL, Books and Libraries, 1835. '* Ur£ confess л biblfothecarian avarice... | |
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