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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... necessary for food and the hours absolutely necessary for sleep , left no margin in which men of the labouring population could apply themselves to mental improvement . Now , happily , a great change has taken place in that respect , a ...
... necessary for food and the hours absolutely necessary for sleep , left no margin in which men of the labouring population could apply themselves to mental improvement . Now , happily , a great change has taken place in that respect , a ...
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... necessary hours of rest and food are added to them there still remains a margin which is available as real leisure for the working man for the purpose to which he seeks to apply them . Now , there is a competition for the working man ...
... necessary hours of rest and food are added to them there still remains a margin which is available as real leisure for the working man for the purpose to which he seeks to apply them . Now , there is a competition for the working man ...
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... necessary to plead . That has now been done . But in the making of a department in the State where Public Libraries and Museums will find a centre and a head . Further , the most pressing educational need which can be advanced is that ...
... necessary to plead . That has now been done . But in the making of a department in the State where Public Libraries and Museums will find a centre and a head . Further , the most pressing educational need which can be advanced is that ...
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... necessary as any of these . Public Libraries are no longer a luxury , for the march of education has made them absolute necessities . They are , in the truest sense , educational institutions , and as such are as deserving of support ...
... necessary as any of these . Public Libraries are no longer a luxury , for the march of education has made them absolute necessities . They are , in the truest sense , educational institutions , and as such are as deserving of support ...
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... necessary ; the difference resting only in the degree with which parties view a possible and necessary change , in order to adjust a law or series of laws to the requirements of the time . Mr. Spencer considers it highly desirable that ...
... necessary ; the difference resting only in the degree with which parties view a possible and necessary change , in order to adjust a law or series of laws to the requirements of the time . Mr. Spencer considers it highly desirable that ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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,...