Library Association Record, 9. cilt

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Library Association., 1907
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in volumes 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to volumes 13-23, new series volume 3-series 4, volume 1.
 

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Sayfa 219 - It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea ; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Sayfa 590 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Sayfa 590 - He runs to the books as I do to the pictures; but I have the advantage. I can see much more of the pictures than he can of the books.
Sayfa 231 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.
Sayfa 458 - Not to offer for sale or sell or cause to be sold at a price below the published price any such dead stock as aforesaid without having first offered such dead stock to the publisher thereof at cost price, or at the proposed reduced price, whichever shall be the lower ; and after such dead stock shall have been returned to the publisher...
Sayfa 219 - ... a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world...
Sayfa 162 - Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XI. borrowed the works of Rasis, the Arabian physician, from the faculty of medicine in Paris, he not only deposited in pledge a considerable quantity of plate, but was obliged to procure a nobleman to join with him as surety in a deed, binding himself under a great forfeiture to restore it.
Sayfa 458 - WE the undersigned several firms of Publishers being desirous as far as possible of ensuring that Books published at net prices (such Books being hereinafter referred to as Net Books) shall not be sold to the public (including schools, libraries and institutions) at less than such net prices hereby inform you that henceforth we shall only invoice and supply to you Net Books published by us or any of us on our usual trade terms provided you on your part agree...
Sayfa 492 - To organize our knowledge, to systematize our reading, to save, out of the relentless cataract of ink, the immortal thoughts of the greatest — this is a necessity, unless the productive ingenuity of man is to lead us at last to a measureless and pathless chaos. To know anything that turns up is, in the infinity of knowledge, to know nothing. To read the first book we come across, in the wilderness of books, is to learn nothing. To turn over the pages of ten thousand volumes is to be practically...
Sayfa 115 - ... who shall become incapable of discharging the duties of his office with efficiency by reason of permanent infirmity of mind or body or of old age, upon his resigning or otherwise ceasing to hold his office, an annual allowance not exceeding in any case two-thirds of his then salary...

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