...searchable, easy-to-use format that can abundantly supplement the illustrations in the present volume. "A man will turn over half a library to make one book," Samuel Johnson said, and for nine years mine was the University of Delaware's. Its Special Collections...

...fine picture, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. — Goethe 34 Reading and Literature A man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Samuel Johnson Instill a love for reading and the great classics by reading aloud with your child...

...into permanent form so that it could have wider use. Dr. Johnson, according to Boswell, once said that "a man will turn over half a library to make one book." Something of this nature could be said about the labors involved in the preparation of this book. Many...

...follow page 198 Acknowledgments Samuel Johnson, that crusty old English lexicographer, once averred that "a man will turn over half a library to make one book." In the darker moments of this project I would have thought this an understatement, but, even if only...

...Nelson, February 18, 1942 NOTE ON THE NOTES In mid-eighteenth century Samuel Johnson observed that a man will turn over half a library to make one book. In the early twenty-first century, an age of information overload, we have not, men or women, that...

...to include and what level of detail to provide. The philosopher and pundit Samuel Johnson observed, "a man will turn over half a library to make one book." We have been guided by experience gained in the classroom and in many training and development workshops...

...thirty days' writing. Samuel Johnson said, "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." The kind of research one likes to do, and the ability to sustain it when you need it, derive from motives....

...GA. Washington Chronicle. Washington DC 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. — Samuel Johnson ARTICLES "A Gold Watch Presented to an Officer at Andersonville." Athens (GA) Banner,...

...Britain. JRH Preface Writing regional economic history leads an author to agree with Dr Johnson that 'a man will turn over half a library to make one book'. In the end, however, some selection must be made. The principle followed here has been to give due...

...directly to me, some albeit in a whisper, but they are all imbued with a high degree of authenticity. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~ Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 ~ In the same way that we sometimes hunger for, nay, crave, a particularly...