Die geschichteE.A. Seemann, 1922 - Book collecting |
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achtzehnten Jahrhunderts Altbuchhandel alten Bücher antiken Auktion Ausgaben Bände berühmten besaß Besitz Bestände besten Biblio bibliographischen Bibliomanen Bibliophilen Bibliophilenbibliotheken Bibliothek Bibliothèque Bibliothèque du Roi Bibliothèque Mazarin blieb bloß books British Museum Buchbinder Bücherei Bücherliebe Bücherliebhaberei Bücherlust Büchersammelwesen Büchersammlung Bücherschatz Buchfreunde buchgeschichtlichen Buchgewerbe Buchhändler Buchpflege Buchwesen Carl Robert Lessing Charles damals deutschen Druckwerke eigenen Einfluß England englischen erst erwerben fand Frankreich französischen Freunde geistigen Gelehrsamkeit Gelehrten Geschichte geworden Goethe Grafen griechischen großen Hand Handschriften Hauses Herzog hinterließ hohen Humanismus Humanisten Italien Jahre Jahrhunderts Kaiser Kardinal Katalog Klassiker König konnte kostbaren Ländern lassen läßt lateinischen Leben Lessing Library lichen Liebhaberbüchereien Liebhaberwerte ließ Lignerolles literarischen Literatur livres Ludwig XIV manche Meusebach Museum muß mußte neuen neunzehnten Jahrhunderts obschon öffentlichen Paillet Paris Persönlichkeit Privatbibliothek qu'il reichen Sammler Sammlung schen schließlich Schriften Schrifttums sechzehnten siebzehnten Jahrhunderts sollte stand theken Tode verkauft vermehrt Versteigerung viel wenig Werke Wert wieder Wissenschaften wohl zehnten Jahrhunderts zeigte
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Page 383 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 383 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Page 383 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot...
Page 372 - For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes clad in blak or reed Of Aristotle and his philosophye Than robes riche or fithele or gay sautrye.
Page 383 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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 life-blood of...
Page 378 - University man: and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library, and to be chained together with so many good authors, et mortuis magistris.
Page 383 - For 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 ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 372 - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That un-to logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake; But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly.
Page 438 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 293 - So ist es zum Beispiel nicht zu viel gesagt, wenn wir behaupten, daß ein verständiger fleißiger Literator durch Vergleichung der sämtlichen Ausgaben unsres Wielands, eines Mannes, dessen wir uns, trotz dem Knurren aller Smelfungen...