...achievement ; for who will not agree with Bacon " that libraries are the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that...without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed ? " With magic touch the skilled painter limns in his perspective, deceiving our senses with the illusion...

...thoughts and pour their souls into ours, — Channing. 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.— Bacon. Books are the best things, well used ; abused, among the worst. — Emerson. • The great and...

...wind.] 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...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed; sec5 ondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more faithful translations, more...

...of Learning," in recounting " the works or acts of merit toward learning," he includes among them " new editions of authors, with more correct impressions,...faithful translations, more profitable glosses, more d,ligent annotations, and the like." In each of these respects the edition bofore us deserves the highest...

...even if it were only the history of pinheads. Bacon calls them, 'The shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed'. They are indispensable to the brain worker, the historian and inventor. Since their main object is...

...78 — 83. (Aldis Wright's Edition.) 2 Libraries, he says, are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion and imposture, are preserved and reposed. places appointed as universities, colleges and schools for...