Public Libraries: A History of the Movement and a Manual for the Organization and Management of Rate-supported LibrariesCassell & Company, Limited, 1891 - 604 páginas |
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... become remote . It seems as if it were buried in a long - forgotten past . But it is not a very remote past and not a past very long forgotten . We go back less than 200 years . Pastimes distinctly brutal were the habitual pastimes of ...
... become remote . It seems as if it were buried in a long - forgotten past . But it is not a very remote past and not a past very long forgotten . We go back less than 200 years . Pastimes distinctly brutal were the habitual pastimes of ...
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... become . To the three rules just named our American friends have added a fourth to the effect that gentlemen shall remove their hats on entering the library , and to a thoughtful man or woman a library is as sacred as a place of worship ...
... become . To the three rules just named our American friends have added a fourth to the effect that gentlemen shall remove their hats on entering the library , and to a thoughtful man or woman a library is as sacred as a place of worship ...
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... become little more than expensive articles of furniture . Books , like coins , are only performing their right function when they are in circulation . Hoarded up , the coins become only so much metal , and the books only so much paper ...
... become little more than expensive articles of furniture . Books , like coins , are only performing their right function when they are in circulation . Hoarded up , the coins become only so much metal , and the books only so much paper ...
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... become apathetic to their higher duties , by the spread of Public Libraries and kindred institutions , supported out of the same funds as are the local police , the street lighting and cleansing . It may be asked , What is a corporation ...
... become apathetic to their higher duties , by the spread of Public Libraries and kindred institutions , supported out of the same funds as are the local police , the street lighting and cleansing . It may be asked , What is a corporation ...
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... become often a dead letter , to swell the number of much similarly cumbrous stuff already on the statute book , but the corporation lives on . In many of our municipal corporations all the men who were elected repre- sentatives when the ...
... become often a dead letter , to swell the number of much similarly cumbrous stuff already on the statute book , but the corporation lives on . In many of our municipal corporations all the men who were elected repre- sentatives when the ...
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Página 529 - Therefore, when I say, in conducting your understanding, love knowledge with a great love, with a vehement love, with a love coeval with life, what do I say, but love innocence, love virtue...
Página 20 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Página 577 - Where there is no such mode, then signed by the clerk of the authority, and delivered to the member or left at his usual or last known place of abode in England, or forwarded by post in a prepaid letter, addressed to the member at his usual or last known place of abode in England.
Página 19 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Página 531 - Any Town or City may receive in its corporate capacity, and hold and manage any devise, bequest, or donation, for the establishment, increase, or maintenance of a Public Library within the same.
Página 574 - Act mentioned: (4) As respects the electors of the county councillors, the persons entitled to vote at their election shall be, in a borough the burgesses enrolled in pursuance of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 and the Acts amending the same, and elsewhere the persons registered as county electors under the County Electors Act, 1888.
Página 529 - ... cheerless beginnings of knowledge, by the darkness from which she springs, by the difficulties which hover around her, by the wretched habitations in which she dwells, by the want and sorrow which sometimes journey in her train ; but let him ever follow her as the Angel that guards him, and as the Genius of his life. She will bring him out at last into the light of day, and exhibit him to the world comprehensive in acquirements, fertile in resources, rich in imagination, strong in reasoning,...