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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... reason why no private enterprise can possibly do for Public Libraries and education what the corporation can do , and it is on this rests the plea for municipal Public Libraries , Museums , and Technical Schools , which shall be the ...
... reason why no private enterprise can possibly do for Public Libraries and education what the corporation can do , and it is on this rests the plea for municipal Public Libraries , Museums , and Technical Schools , which shall be the ...
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... reasons in support of this idea . Compulsory taxation , he thinks , is no better than a bribery fund to be used by political parties ; it leads to extravagance ; and it encourages the politician . Now Mr. Herbert wants to get rid of the ...
... reasons in support of this idea . Compulsory taxation , he thinks , is no better than a bribery fund to be used by political parties ; it leads to extravagance ; and it encourages the politician . Now Mr. Herbert wants to get rid of the ...
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... reason is that the British taxpayer objects on prin- ciple to any increase in his rates . All that the Act permits is one penny in the pound per year on the ratable value 20 Public Libraries . CHAPTER III THE PLEA FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
... reason is that the British taxpayer objects on prin- ciple to any increase in his rates . All that the Act permits is one penny in the pound per year on the ratable value 20 Public Libraries . CHAPTER III THE PLEA FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
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... reason to complain when an enterprising company seeks to light his town with gas , as a bookseller or proprietor of a subscription library has against a town's library being established . Public Libraries engender habits of reading ...
... reason to complain when an enterprising company seeks to light his town with gas , as a bookseller or proprietor of a subscription library has against a town's library being established . Public Libraries engender habits of reading ...
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... reason difficult to discover . Granted that there are those who are glad to read without buying , there are probably still more who are led to buy what they read , or are led , by reading , to desire to buy . A young man who borrows a ...
... reason difficult to discover . Granted that there are those who are glad to read without buying , there are probably still more who are led to buy what they read , or are led , by reading , to desire to buy . A young man who borrows a ...
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Public Libraries: A History of the Movement and a Manual for the ... Thomas Greenwood Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
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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,...