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James Wynne. THE LIBRARY OF JOHN ALLAN , ESQ . THIS Collection , which numbers between three and four thousand volumes , is perhaps the most curious in character , and peculiar in selection , of any in the city . Its limited extent ...
James Wynne. THE LIBRARY OF JOHN ALLAN , ESQ . THIS Collection , which numbers between three and four thousand volumes , is perhaps the most curious in character , and peculiar in selection , of any in the city . Its limited extent ...
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... thousand volumes , is one of marked character , and bears a strong impress of the various pursuits which at different periods of its collector's life , intensely occupied his attention . Bred to the pro- fession of medicine , afterward ...
... thousand volumes , is one of marked character , and bears a strong impress of the various pursuits which at different periods of its collector's life , intensely occupied his attention . Bred to the pro- fession of medicine , afterward ...
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... thousand volumes , is almost exclusively devoted to classical literature , and in its particular department is not surpassed , if equalled , by any other library in the United States . It is intended for use , in the strictest sense of ...
... thousand volumes , is almost exclusively devoted to classical literature , and in its particular department is not surpassed , if equalled , by any other library in the United States . It is intended for use , in the strictest sense of ...
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... thousand three hundred and twenty pounds and four shillings -no inconsiderable sum for the work of a distin- guished ... volumes , imperial folio . For beauty of type , breadth of margin , and all the other require- ments of the Dibdin ...
... thousand three hundred and twenty pounds and four shillings -no inconsiderable sum for the work of a distin- guished ... volumes , imperial folio . For beauty of type , breadth of margin , and all the other require- ments of the Dibdin ...
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James Wynne. THOMAS P. BARTON'S LIBRARY . THIS Collection contains about sixteen thousand volumes . Four thousand of these belonged to the library of the late Edward Livingston , whose daughter Mr. Barton married , and twelve thousand ...
James Wynne. THOMAS P. BARTON'S LIBRARY . THIS Collection contains about sixteen thousand volumes . Four thousand of these belonged to the library of the late Edward Livingston , whose daughter Mr. Barton married , and twelve thousand ...
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Page 352 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 309 - He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, That leads to Brotherstone. He went not with the bold Buccleuch, His banner broad to rear; He went not 'gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack...
Page 75 - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
Page 81 - And unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio. Viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London ProdigalL The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
Page 247 - Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England, from the First Planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year, 1677.
Page 76 - The | Whole Contention | betweene the two Famous | Houses, LANCASTER and | YORKE. | With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, | and King Henrie the \ sixt. \ Diuided into two Parts: And newly corrected and | enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. | Printed at LONDON, for TP...
Page 30 - I was passionately fond as a boy (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ; indeed that and the ' Medea' were the only ones, except the ' Seven before Thebes,
Page 427 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 106 - A SHORT STORY OF THE RISE, REIGN AND RUIN OF THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES THAT INFECTED THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND...
Page viii - a passion for possessing books; not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them. He who is affected by this mania knows books only by their titles and dates, and is rather seduced by the exterior than the interior.