Category: History - British
The two most important human inventions are perhaps Speech and Writing. In no adequate way could man fully express his mental activities except by speech: nor could he adequately record them except by writing. And to some extent the development of the two ran a parallel course...
The two most important human inventions are perhaps Speech and Writing. In no adequate way could man fully express his mental activities except by speech: nor could he adequatel...
2. CHAPTER IIThe cradle of the University is in the vaulted chamber at the north-east corner of St. Mary’s Church, still called the Old Congregation House. The present building was begun in...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe scale of the present work will not allow of more than a sketch of the development of the Library for the long period included in the chapter heading above. The chief treasur...
4. Chapter V.There was an ebb-tide in the Library affairs for some years after Bodley’s death on January 28, 1613—a kind of reaction. James was getting old (though he did not resign till 162...
5. CHAPTER IVDr. Bulkeley Bandinel[20] was the last of the old type of librarian, the gentlemanly old-fashioned scholar, to whom the Library was a pleasant preserve to which like-minded stud...
6. CHAPTER VThe antiquity, the historical associations, and the treasures of the Library combine to give it a peculiar fascination. Founded in the “spacious times of great Elizabeth,” and e...
7. CHAPTER VIMan lives _in_ the present, _for_ the future, but emphatically _by_ the past. He cannot possibly understand what he sees (whether in politics, theology, literature or science),...