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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... result is seen in the records of the police - courts , where conviction after conviction is recorded against the same person . It is therefore a problem of the greatest social importance to ascertain how far the higher and better ...
... result is seen in the records of the police - courts , where conviction after conviction is recorded against the same person . It is therefore a problem of the greatest social importance to ascertain how far the higher and better ...
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... results from the belief that it would stop the progress to such a higher state as he has described , and bring back a lower state . " Nothing , " he assures us , " but the slow modification of human nature by the discipline of social ...
... results from the belief that it would stop the progress to such a higher state as he has described , and bring back a lower state . " Nothing , " he assures us , " but the slow modification of human nature by the discipline of social ...
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... results and advantages which are absolutely unreachable by each individual acting for himself . When these philosophers emphatically announce that the sole duty of the State is to administer justice , and , that legislation should not ...
... results and advantages which are absolutely unreachable by each individual acting for himself . When these philosophers emphatically announce that the sole duty of the State is to administer justice , and , that legislation should not ...
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... result as inevitable . Now , we have no desire to prevent the Public Library from ministering to the amusement of the public . On the contrary , there would be need for regret if it did not . There are too many institutions of the ...
... result as inevitable . Now , we have no desire to prevent the Public Library from ministering to the amusement of the public . On the contrary , there would be need for regret if it did not . There are too many institutions of the ...
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... result of his experience , which has not been by any means limited , that Public Libraries had rather increased than decreased the trade in which he is concerned . Nor is the reason difficult to discover . Granted that there are those ...
... result of his experience , which has not been by any means limited , that Public Libraries had rather increased than decreased the trade in which he is concerned . Nor is the reason difficult to discover . Granted that there are those ...
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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,...