| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1817 - 606 pages
...find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osbome's, at Gray's Inn, to pick up SCARCE поокв. BUY good books, and read them. The best books are the commonest, [Oh, heresy unprecedented '.] and the last editions are always the best if the editors eagles of that... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1853 - 704 pages
...survive, and will long survive. In one of his letters to his son he says, with truth and prescience, " Buy good books and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the Editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former." This is especially true of his own works. The last edition of Lord... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 492 pages
...will find something better to do, than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's Inn, to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well.... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr Oshorne's at Gray's Inn, to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title pages too well.... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1857 - 642 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's Inn, to pick np scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title pages too well.... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr Osborne's at Gray's Inn to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well.... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 346 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray'sInn, to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well.... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1890 - 448 pages
...extensive one, contains all the best works of reference, and perhaps illustrates his own dictum : — " Buy good books and read them ; the best books are...editions are always the best if the editors are not blockheads3." It remains to say something of the youth to whom these letters were addressed, though... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 296 pages
...is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books. Letters to AM Son, ii. 127. • • • Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and titlepages too well.... | |
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