...a book! Job. XLX. 23. 16 My desire is . . written a book. Job. XXXI. 35. . that mine adversary had mmander-vnrChief, June 16, 1775. GAMBLING (See also C SAMUEL JOHNSON — Boswctt's Lafe of Johnson. (1775) is Blest be the hour wherein I bought this book;...

...of Hempftede, on the Lone Island, Called Paumanok by the Red Indians, 1924. TO HWD Tj (J ,~J i «' 3 "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." — SAMUEL JOHNSON. THIS BOOK AND HOW TO USE IT This volume is the fruit of twenty years of living...

...rise. 2. He was obliged to leave them. 3. Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. 4. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. 5. To err is human; to forgive, divine. • 6. He improved by trying to improve. 7. In order to carry...

...volumes of notes. "The greater part of an author's time," said Dr. Johnson, "is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." . . . Yet the labor of preparation is not, after all, more important than that of final revision. The...

... THE GIFT Mr. and Mrs. ; I • . ' "M \AI ASK ME ANOTHER! The Question Book "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." — SAMUEL JOHNSON. "We'll tell the cock-eyed world." — THE AUTHORS. cftsk (Me eftnotfiev! THE QUESTION...

...<^ S- i ST 4S « «5 •as llJj'S'S Q § U in in OQ < < APPENDIX D SOURCES OF INFORMATION CONSULTED "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." — Dr. Johnson. (1) Encyclopedia Americana, biographical article, "Alexander Graham Bell." (2) Circuit...

...putting the thing perhaps too mechanically, " The greater part of an author's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." Addison collected three folios of materials before publishing the first number of the " Spectator."...

...books he reads even more forcefully. "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book." The great reader was also a collector of books, who wrote a proposal and a number of learned bibliographical...

...challenge of the times . . . and the problems of his own personal life. m Samuel Johnson once said, "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." Several libraries were turned over, thousands of books and papers were searched, for the material that...

...Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer All books are either dreams or swords,...