 Let the library not keep cushioned seats for time-wasting and lounging readers, nor places for every-day novels, mindtainting reviews, controversial politics, scribblings of poetry and prose, biographies of unknown names, nor for those teachers of disjointed...  Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Ruch - Stran 27avtor: James Rush - 1869 - 30 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1870 - 330 strani
...Not the least among these was the following, which is cited from the will itself: " Let the library not keep cushioned seats for time-wasting and lounging...teachers of disjointed thinking, the daily newspapers." Here is one more melancholy instance of a broad and liberal bequest narrowly bestowed. The spirit which... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900 - 768 strani
...Not the least among these was the following, which is cited from the will itself: "Let the library not keep cushioned seats for time-wasting and lounging...teachers of disjointed thinking, the daily newspapers/' Here is one more melancholy instance of a broad and liberal bequest narrowly bestowed. The spirit which... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900 - 538 strani
...following, which is cited from the will itself: "Let the library not keep cushioned seats for time- wasting and lounging readers, nor places for every-day novels,...teachers of disjointed thinking, the daily newspapers." Here is one more melancholy instance of a broad and liberal bequest narrowly bestowed. The spirit which... | |
 | Theodore Wesley Koch - 1913 - 112 strani
...-stockholders. Among other restrictions, the will contained the following clause: "Let the library not keep cushioned seats for time-wasting and lounging...teachers of disjointed thinking, the daily newspapers." The provisions of the will were strictly carried out and today the Ridgeway Library stands as a storehouse... | |
 | Theodore Wesley Koch - 1913 - 88 strani
...other restrictions, the will contained the following clause: "Let the library not keep cushioned scats for time-wasting and lounging readers, nor places...teachers of disjointed thinking, the daily newspapers." The provisions of the will were strictly carried out and today the Ridgeway Library stands as a storehouse... | |
 | 1913 - 654 strani
...the library not keep cushioned seats for time-wasting and lounging readers, nor places for every day novels, mind-tainting reviews, controversial politics,...scribblings of poetry and prose, biographies of unknown men, nor of those teachers of disjointed thinking, the daily newspapers." Contrast with this our large... | |
 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 640 strani
...Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush, Relating to The Library Company^ of Philadelphia., p. 13. "Let it be a favor for the eminent works of fiction...newspapers, except, perhaps, for reference to support, since such an authority could never prove the authentic date of an event." — Ib., pp. 27-28. accepted it... | |
 | Kenneth Finkel, Susan Oyama - 1988 - 132 strani
...quirky bans for the new building. There would be no upholstered chairs, "every day novels, mind tainting reviews, controversial politics, scribblings of poetry and prose. biographies of unknown names . . . [or| dairy news papers." Since bequests like Rush's are hard to come by, the library directors... | |
 | Edwin Wolf - 1976 - 118 strani
...upon the shelves; but let it not keep cushioned seats for time-wasting and lounging readers, nor place for every-day novels, mind-tainting reviews, controversial...newspapers, except, perhaps for reference to support, since such an authority could never prove, the authentic date of an event. In short, let the managers think... | |
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