 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny-paper. There would be scarce such a thing m 836 Isaac, Tuckey & Co."# Steele Richard" Richard Steele( shelves ; not to mention millions •f «olumes that would be utterly annihilated. I cannot think that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper. There would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio; the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. I cannot think that... | |
 | George Smallfield - 1838 - 80 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be no such thing in nature as a folio: the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves: not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.^ * These examples would... | |
 | Medicine - 1839 - 698 pages
...quintescence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarcely any such thing in Nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention the millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated." — Addison. —... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - English language - 1841 - 290 pages
...quintessence many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper there would be no such thing in nature as a folio the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. Of the Period* 62. The... | |
 | F. Francillon - English language - 1842 - 118 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce any such thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves : not to mention millions of volumes, that would be utterly annihilated." — Addison, Spect.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper. There would be scarce such a of the married state, if I may so call it, lie principally upon the female shelves; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. I cannot think that... | |
 | Francis Francillon - 1842 - 70 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make bis appearance in a penny paper: there would be scaree any such thing in nature as a folio: the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves: not to mention millions of volumes, that would be utterly annihilated."—Addison, Spect.... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...Addison, " many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper. There would scarce be such a thing in nature as a folio ; the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated." One such attempt we... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper. There would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio ; the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves, not to mention the millions of volumes that would b* utterly annihilated. 302 303 Hainburgh,... | |
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Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper: there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions... 
