| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 670 pages
...&c., &c. When he is engaged in such works as require continual reference to a variety of authors, he has a stove shifted into one of these rooms, in which...office for so many clerks. But all is for the one man, viho multiplies himself as author, and admitting no one into this room, moves as he finds necessary,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 646 pages
...&c., &e. When he is engaged in such works as require continual reference to a variety of authors, he has a stove shifted into one of these rooms, in which...office for so many clerks. But all is for the one man, v ho multiplies himself as author, and admitting no one into this room, moves as he finds necessary,... | |
| 1882 - 904 pages
...room, comfortably furnished, lighted from above, and furnished with eleven desks to stand to, and t\vo low tables, like a public office for so many clerks....desk is furnished with a complete establishment of inkstands, pens, pins to pin manuscripts of the same work, etc. There is a separate bell to several... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 780 pages
...contains no bookshelves. It is a longish room comfortably furnished, lighted from above, and furnibhed with eleven desks to stand to, and two low tables,...office for so many clerks. But all is for the one man, »ho multiplies himself as author, and admitting no one into this room, moves as he finds necessary,... | |
| Stephen Jay Gould - 2007 - 684 pages
...ordinary studio contains no bookshelves. It is a longish room, comfortably furnished, lighted from above, with eleven desks to stand to, and two low tables,...furnished with a complete establishment of inkstand, pens, etc. . . . There is a separate bell to several desks. The low tables are to sit to when he is tired.... | |
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