 | Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1878 - 442 pages
...RUSKIN, LL.D. " / lay we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, cart atout books? How mnch do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend OH our horses ? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - Cathedrals - 1879 - 356 pages
...WINDUS'S list of ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. ' ' I say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - Anthropology - 1879 - 400 pages
...WINDUS'S 3Ltst of Books. ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. "/ say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about books ? How much...call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of peotle... | |
 | James Payn - 1879 - 360 pages
...WINDUS'S list of Books. ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. "I say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of peotle... | |
 | 1879 - 786 pages
...AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. "/ say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, cart about books? How much do you think we spend altogether...call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - Crime - 1879 - 442 pages
...BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. ' ' / lay we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, cart about books? How much do you think we spend altogether...call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people... | |
 | William Wilkie Collins - 1879 - 318 pages
...BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. " / say we hare despised literature ; wluit do we, as a nation, care abeut books ? How much do you think we spend altogether...call him mad —a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, th&ugA men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson - Medicine - 1879 - 430 pages
...CHATTO & WINDUS'S list ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. " / say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about books? How much...spend on our horses ? If a man spends lavishly on his Horary, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin... | |
 | 1879 - 732 pages
...say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, can about boohs ? Haw much do you thinh we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private,...call him mad —a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - Anthropology - 1879 - 422 pages
...WINDUS'S list of Books* ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN. 1 ' / say we have despised literature ; what do we, as a nation, care about books ? How much...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses f If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call... | |
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? 
