Address on the Moral Influence of Free Libraries, Delivered at the Opening of the Longsight Branch Library...July 23rd, 1892 |
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... Southern ( chairman of the Free Libraries Committee ) , Councillor Harry Rawson ( deputy - chairman ) , Aldermen Dr. Russell , Hugo Shaw , and Abraham Lloyd , Councillors Charles Rowley , Reynolds , S. H. Brooks , Norris , Hoy , and ...
... Southern ( chairman of the Free Libraries Committee ) , Councillor Harry Rawson ( deputy - chairman ) , Aldermen Dr. Russell , Hugo Shaw , and Abraham Lloyd , Councillors Charles Rowley , Reynolds , S. H. Brooks , Norris , Hoy , and ...
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... SOUTHERN moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Ireland for his address . He said , as chairman of the Free Libraries Committee , he wished to refer to those by whose sagacious liberality this building had become the property of the ratepayers ...
... SOUTHERN moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Ireland for his address . He said , as chairman of the Free Libraries Committee , he wished to refer to those by whose sagacious liberality this building had become the property of the ratepayers ...
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... Southern ) was interested in looking over the minute books to find , that from the early days an endeavour was made to popularise the institution by means of occasional lectures and concerts . A handbill set forth that " on November 2 ...
... Southern ) was interested in looking over the minute books to find , that from the early days an endeavour was made to popularise the institution by means of occasional lectures and concerts . A handbill set forth that " on November 2 ...
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Address on the Moral Influence of Free Libraries, Delivered at the Opening ... Alexander Ireland Volledige weergave - 1892 |
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Pagina 8 - I myself have never persisted in any plan for two days together. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him ; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Pagina 10 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Pagina 11 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
Pagina 10 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of State, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Pagina 12 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow...
Pagina 11 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed...
Pagina 11 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Pagina 10 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Pagina 10 - Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Pagina 6 - But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time...