He introduced me to his library, in a confined room, with a very small window, and that so shaded by the roof of the corridor, as to admit the least portion of light necessary for study. The library was arranged on three rows of shelves, extending across... The Dublin University Magazine - Pàgina 4821838Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1838 - 850 pàgines
...hospitality common in the country, I was invited to sit down under the corridor and take a cigar and a mau'. A celestial globe, a large telescope, and a theodolite...of three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous hooks of law ; a few on the inductive sciences; some in French and some in Latin, upon subjects of... | |
| John Parish Robertson, William Parish Robertson - 1838 - 248 pàgines
...actions. Passing from this subject, he was pleased that I should know what were his occupations. He introduced me to his library, in a confined room,...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law ; a few on the inductive sciences ; some in French and some in Latin upon subjects of general... | |
| John Parish Robertson, William Parish Robertson - 1838 - 402 pàgines
...actions. Passing from this subject, he was pleased that I should know what were his occupations. He introduced me to his library, in a confined room,...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law; a few on the inductive sciences ; some in French and some in Latin upon subjects of general... | |
| 1839 - 444 pàgines
...actions. Passing from this subject, he was pleased that I should know what were his occupations. He introduced me to his library, in a confined room,...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law ; a few on the inductive sciences ; some in French and some in Latin, upon subjects of general... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pàgines
...if any, was of the last degree of insignificance, and may be left out, or supplied ad libitum : " He introduced me to his library, in a confined room,...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law ; a few on the inductive sciences ; some in French and some in Latin upon subjects of general... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 pàgines
...last degree of insignificance, and may be left out, or supplied ad libitum : " He introduced me to hie library, in a confined room, with a very small window,...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law ; a few on the inductive sciences; some in French and some in Latin upon subjects of general... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 338 pàgines
...was no other than Doctor Francia. He introduced me to his library, in a confined room, with a ?ery small window, and that so shaded by the roof of the...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law ; a few on the inductive sciences ; some in French and some in Latin upon subjects of general... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 332 pàgines
...other than Doctor Francia. He introduced me to his lib.-ary, in a confined room, with a very email window, and that so shaded by the roof of the corridor...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law ; a few on the inductive sciences ; some in French and some in Latin upon subjects of general... | |
| W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pàgines
...portico ; and I immediately inferred that the personage Before me was no other than Doctor Francia. He introduced me to his library, in a confined room,...three hundred volumes. There were many ponderous books on law ; a few on the inductive sciences ; some in French, and some in Latin, upon subjects of general... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 pàgines
...any, was of the la-t degree of insignificance, and may be left out, or supplied aII libitum : ' lie introduced me to his library, in a confined room,...with a very small window, and that so shaded by the root' of the corridor, as to admit the least portion of light necessary for study. The library was... | |
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