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...5. The works touching books are two: first, libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...glosses, more diligent annotations, and the like. 6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men, besides the advancement and countenancing of...

...Bacon has well said that "Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient aaints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." May we soon see a large and well-attended shrine in the good city of Richmond. Dr. Johuson has said,...

...The works touching books are two ; first, libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics transitions, more profitable glosses, more diligent annotations, and the like. The works pertaining...

...age to the eyes of another. Bacon says, of libraries, that they are "the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." And sometimes, on opening a volume of history, we imagine ourselves in a sort of Westminster Abbey,...

...age to the eyes of another. Bacon snys, of libraries, that they are "the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." And sometime?, on opening a volume of history, we imagine ourselves in a sort of Westminster Abbey,...

...Protestant religious community — its library a shrine where, as my Lord Bacon says, " all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed" — its chapel a Christian sanctuary, with arches ever resonant of spiritual worship, and altars ever...

...] The works touching books are two: first libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture 4 , are preserved and reposed; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more...

...wind.1] The works touching books are two : first libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture 2, are preserved and reposed ; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more...

...fellow-countryman of our Pilgrim Fathers — that " libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." But Cicero, methinks, did better justice to the theme. We are told that when that illustrious orator...