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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... districts a much smaller population , distri- buted and diffused , perhaps , over a space perhaps twenty or fifty times larger , there it is very difficult , as persons conversant with rural districts well know , to put all upon ...
... districts a much smaller population , distri- buted and diffused , perhaps , over a space perhaps twenty or fifty times larger , there it is very difficult , as persons conversant with rural districts well know , to put all upon ...
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... district can be considered complete and possess a pro- gressive character unless it has a building inscribed as a ... District after district is seen adopting the Public Libraries Acts , purchasing , or collecting from the benevolent ...
... district can be considered complete and possess a pro- gressive character unless it has a building inscribed as a ... District after district is seen adopting the Public Libraries Acts , purchasing , or collecting from the benevolent ...
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... district to be without such an institution . But still , notwithstanding the change which has come over public ... districts who care for the welfare of the community among whom they dwell , to agitate and discuss the advisability as to ...
... district to be without such an institution . But still , notwithstanding the change which has come over public ... districts who care for the welfare of the community among whom they dwell , to agitate and discuss the advisability as to ...
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... district adopting the Public Libraries Acts for its maintenance . Too great stress cannot be laid upon this , because by no other course of action can the library be brought in perpetuity under the administration of the elected ...
... district adopting the Public Libraries Acts for its maintenance . Too great stress cannot be laid upon this , because by no other course of action can the library be brought in perpetuity under the administration of the elected ...
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... district in which it is situated . Workhouses are not an unmixed good , because they induce thriftlessness , while they provide shelter for the unfortunate and indigent . The police are not an unmixed good , for they are sometimes found ...
... district in which it is situated . Workhouses are not an unmixed good , because they induce thriftlessness , while they provide shelter for the unfortunate and indigent . The police are not an unmixed good , for they are sometimes found ...
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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,...