 | Bibliography, National - 1869 - 956 pages
...thereby rendered their treasure« available to the general reader." — Observer, 5 THE SILENT HOCK : Essays, Original and Selected By the Author of "The Gentle Life," Second Edition. Including Ьму« by JUtseillon, Jeremy Taylor, Bishop Latimer, Isaac Barrow, John Ruskin, Isaak Walton,... | |
 | George Catlin - History - 1867 - 402 pages
...can strongly recommend it to any one who has a fancy for the bye-ways of literatare." — Guardian. " The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, but life is not long enough to allow a reader to wade th rough zach thick folios, and therefore the... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Dodge - 1867 - 364 pages
...can strongly recommend it to any one who has a fancy for the bye-ways of literature" — Guardian. " The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are Tare, but life is not long enough to allow a reader to wade through such thick folios, and therefore... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1867 - 334 pages
...strong!/l recommend it to any one who has a fancy for the bye-ways of literature." — Gnardian. , " The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they arr rare, but life is not long enough to allow a reader to wade through .fiwh thick folios, ana therefore... | |
 | Henry Morley - Ballads, English - 1868 - 282 pages
...Scott, Lodowick Muggleton, Sir Thomas Browne, George Psalmanazar, The Highwaymen, The Spirit World. " The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, but life is not lonq enough to allow a render to u-ade through such thick folios, and therefore the... | |
 | Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye - 1868 - 244 pages
...can strongly recommend it to any one who has a fancy for the bye-ways of literature." — Guardian. " The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, but life isnnt long enoughto allow areadertownde throughsuch thick folios, and therefore the compiler... | |
 | Log - 1868 - 344 pages
...mistake not, be found in tne fact that it is a compact word-book of the English Language." — Record. THE SILENT HOUR : Essays, Original and Selected. By the Author of "The Gentle Life." CONTENTS. How to read the Scriptures .... From the Homilies. Unreasonable Infidelity .... Isaac Barrow.... | |
 | William Beckford - 1868 - 228 pages
...invaluable Index, which the publishers have done a public servwe in reprinting."—Notes and Queries. X. THE SILENT HOUR: Essays, Original and Selected. By the Author of "The Gentle Life." CONTESTS. How to read the Scriptures .... From the Homilies. Unreasonable Infidelity .... Isaac Barrow.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Essays - 1868 - 240 pages
...VARIA : Readings from Rare Books. Reprinted, by permission, from the Saturday Rwiew, Spectator, SLC. " The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, but life is not long enough to allow a reader to wade through such thick folios, and therefore the... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - Boats and boating - 1868 - 404 pages
...can strongly recommend it to any one who has a fancy for the bye-ways of literature." — Guardian. " The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, but life is not long enough to allow a reader to wade through such thick folios, and therefore the... | |
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There is not a single thought in the volume that does not contribute in some measure to the formation of a true gentleman. 
