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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... Taken in Exchange . A DEPARTMENT FOR MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE RECENTLY OPENED . CATALOGUES GRATIS AND POST FREE . CHARLES HIGHAM , 27a , FARRINGDON STREET , LONDON , E.C. FORTY - EIGHT HIGHEST AWARDS ( including THIRTEEN Gold Medals vi ...
... Taken in Exchange . A DEPARTMENT FOR MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE RECENTLY OPENED . CATALOGUES GRATIS AND POST FREE . CHARLES HIGHAM , 27a , FARRINGDON STREET , LONDON , E.C. FORTY - EIGHT HIGHEST AWARDS ( including THIRTEEN Gold Medals vi ...
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... taken so many forms in which the blessed and benevolent principles of the Gospel open and expand themselves . We know that not to be an idle boast - not to be an arbitrary and unsupported opinion , and we do it in this way . When we go ...
... taken so many forms in which the blessed and benevolent principles of the Gospel open and expand themselves . We know that not to be an idle boast - not to be an arbitrary and unsupported opinion , and we do it in this way . When we go ...
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... taken as a body , it would be impossible to find a more courteous body of men and women among public officials . They are invariably willing to help the readers and borrowers , and in thousands of instances they are not merely the ...
... taken as a body , it would be impossible to find a more courteous body of men and women among public officials . They are invariably willing to help the readers and borrowers , and in thousands of instances they are not merely the ...
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... contributions . There must be a large concurrence of opinion before any step could be taken . The town councils would not borrow £ 5,000 to build a library unless they felt satisfied The Passing of the Ewart Bill of 1850 . 63.
... contributions . There must be a large concurrence of opinion before any step could be taken . The town councils would not borrow £ 5,000 to build a library unless they felt satisfied The Passing of the Ewart Bill of 1850 . 63.
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... taken is at times perfectly amazing . In the autumn of 1888 , when the vote was being taken in Hull , it was stated before the stipendiary that there were whole streets where opponents had induced wives of absent fishermen to vote ...
... taken is at times perfectly amazing . In the autumn of 1888 , when the vote was being taken in Hull , it was stated before the stipendiary that there were whole streets where opponents had induced wives of absent fishermen to vote ...
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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,...