 I can see no good reason to alter my rule for excluding such books as Almanacks, Plays, and an infinite number that are daily printed of very unworthy matters — handling such books as one thinks both the Keeper and Under-Keeper should disdain to seek...  Library Journal - Page 243edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | John Walters - 1780 - 168 pages
...to fee the library." Letter 130. " I can fee no good reafon to alter my opinion for excluding fuch books as almanacks, plays, and an infinite number...that are daily printed of very unworthy matters; and fuch as methinks both keeper and under-keeper mould difdain to feek out to deliver to any man. Haply... | |
 | British museum dept. of pr. books - 1845 - 108 pages
...Thomas Bodley called the majority of pamphlets " Riff-raff,"* and wrote as follows, respecting them:—" I can see no good reason to alter my opinion for excluding...and handling such as methinks both the keeper and underkeeper should disdain to seek out to deliver to any man. Haply some plays may be worthy the keeping,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 528 pages
...founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. " I can see no good reason," he wrote to the first librarian, Dr. James, " to alter my opinion for excluding such books as almanacks,...infinite number that are daily printed of very unworthy mattrrs and handling, such as methinks both the keeper and uuder-kerpcr should disdain to seek out... | |
 | John Timbs - History - 1869 - 368 pages
...application of the first Bodleian librarian, Dr. James, to be allowed to purchase plays, replied, ' I can see no good reason to alter my opinion for excluding...infinite number that are daily printed, of very unworthy matter and handling." A short time before the date of this letter, was printed Marlowe's True Tragedie... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 444 pages
...Bodley called the majority of pamphlets " riff-raff,"1 and wrote as follows respecting them : — " I can see no good reason to alter my opinion for excluding...plays, and an infinite number that are daily printed of every unworthy matters and handling, such as methinks both the keeper and underkeeper should disdain... | |
 | Wesley Washington Pasko - Book industries and trade - 1894 - 618 pages
...When the Bodleian Library was begun its founder, bir Thomas Bodley, thus wrote to the librarian : " I can see no good reason to alter my opinion for excluding such lx>oks as almanacs, plays, and an infinite number that are daily printed of very unworthy matters and... | |
 | Iowa Library Commission - 1905 - 1062 pages
...designating them as "baggage books." "I can see no good reason to alter my rule for excluding . . . plays and an infinite number that are daily printed of very unworthy matters. . . . Haply some plays may be worthy the keeping—but hardly one in forty." Now, all this has changed... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 234 pages
...mistake, but a natural one. Let him give his own reasons: ' I can see no good reason to alter my rule for ' excluding such books as Almanacks, Plays, and...infinite number that are daily printed of very unworthy ' matters—handling such books as one thinks both the ' Keeper and Under-Keeper should disdain to... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Books and reading - 1905 - 334 pages
...own reasons: ' I can see no good reason to alter my ' rule for excluding such books as Al' manacks, Plays, and an infinite number ' that are daily printed of very unworthy ' matters — handling such books as one ' thinks both the Keeper and Under' Keeper should disdain to seek out,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Books and reading - 1905 - 410 pages
...own reasons: ' I can see no good reason to alter my ' rule for excluding such books as Al' manacks, Plays, and an infinite number ' that are daily printed of very unworthy ' matters—handling such books as one ' thinks both the Keeper and Under' Keeper should disdain to... | |
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