 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 pages
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take, as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | John Ruskin - Pre-Raphaelitism - 1865 - 302 pages
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower st ill, how much do you think the contents of the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1867 - 144 pages
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take, as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 pages
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars ? What position would its expenditure on literature take, as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1871 - 268 pages
...bibliomaniac. But you never call any one ahorsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...of the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public or private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars ? What position would its... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1872 - 144 pages
...biblio-maniac. But you never call any one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...lower still, how much do you think the contents of the book-shelvea of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses ; and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...call one a horse-maniac, though men^ ruin themselves , 754 LITER ART AN A. every day by their horses ; and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | James Payn - 1876 - 430 pages
...bibliomaniac. Rut you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars t What position would its expenditure on literature tahe as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 304 pages
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars f What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious... | |
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If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad - a bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. 
