 | Horace - Latin poetry - 1850 - 238 pages
...the supplementary volumes of the present edition, he says : " Books that you may carry to the 6re, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful...stout, closely, but elegantly printed vol., foolscap I2mo, with 6ne equestrian Portrait of Napoleon and Frontispiece (pub. at Ss.) ClOHi, 3s. 0i/. I8U BRITISH... | |
 | William Clarke - Ireland - 1850 - 494 pages
...volumes of the present edition, he says : " Books that you may carry to the fire, and bold readlly in your hand, are the most useful after all. Such...stout, closely, but elegantly printed vol.. foolscap I2mo, with fine equestrian Portrait of Napoleon and Frontispiece (pub. at 5,.), Cloth, 3t. 6d. 1814... | |
 | Henry Phillpotts (bp. of Exeter.) - 1850 - 112 pages
...FOWELL BUXTON. BY ins SON. LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. BY WASHINGTON IRVING. ' Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will often look at, them, and be templed to go on, when he would be frightened at books of a... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Natural history - 1850 - 544 pages
...recorded in the supplementary volumes of the present edition, h•ays : " Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most uteiu after all. Such books form the mass of general and easy reading." BOURRIENNE'S MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON,... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1850 - 574 pages
...Ana recorded in the supplementary volumes of the present edition, be says: "Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useiul after all. Such books form the mass of general and easy reading.1' BOURRIENNE'S MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON,... | |
 | François Guizot - History - 1851 - 272 pages
...the present edition, he says : " Booka that you mny carry to the fire, and hoid readily in your haud, are the • most useful after all. Such books form...BOURRIENNE'S MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON, one stout, closely, hut elegantly printed vol.. foolscap 12mo, with line equestrian Portrait of Napoleon and Frontisplece... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Astronomy - 1851 - 344 pages
...the supplementary volumes of the present edition, he :„»> i : " Books Hint vou may carry to Ihe fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. Such hooks form the mass ol general and easy reading." BOURRIENNE'S MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON, one stout, closely,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pages
...one trunk, suited for all classes and all climates. Dr. Johnson says : " Books that you may earry fo the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will often look at them, andbe tempted to yo on when he would be fri9htened at books of a laryer... | |
 | Alphonse Marie L. de Prat de Lamartine - 1851 - 204 pages
...you may carry to the fire, and hold raadily in your hand, are th» most useful after all. Such hooks form the mass of general and easy reading." BOURRIENNE'S MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON, one ttout, closely, hut eleganllv printed vol foolscap 12mo, with fine equestrian Portrait of Napoleon... | |
 | George Borrow - 1851 - 430 pages
...suited for all classes and all climates. Dr. Johnson says : " Books that you may carry to the ftre, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will often look at them, and be tempted to go on when he would be frightened at books of a larger... | |
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Books/ said he,' that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. 
