A great portion of the best writing and reading — literary, scientific, professional, miscellaneous — comes to us now, at stated intervals, in paper covers. The writer appears, as it were, in his shirt-sleeves. As soon as he has delivered his message... MEDICAL ESSAYS - Page 404by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS - 1891Full view - About this book
| 1879 - 612 pages
...contents of these hundred and twenty volumes as easily accessible as the words in a dictionary i ****** A great portion of the best writing and reading —...heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles, which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening every thing away but mice and... | |
| Boston Medical Library - 1881 - 72 pages
...might almost dare to parody Mr. Webster's words in speaking of Hamilton, to describe what Mr. Gushing did for the solemn rows of back volumes of our honored...heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening everything away but mice and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 478 pages
...might almost dare to parody Mr. Webster's words in speaking of Hamilton, to describe what Mr. Gushing did for the solemn rows of back volumes of our honored...heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening everything away but mice and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 482 pages
...Dr. Burney had to say about singing. Who would have looked for it under the Italian word cantare ? I was curious to learn something of the etchings of...heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening everything away but mice and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 504 pages
...might almost dare to parody Mr. Webster's words in speaking of Hamilton, to describe what Mr. Gushing did for the solemn rows of back volumes of our honored...heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening everything away but mice and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 504 pages
...might .almost dare to parody Mr. Webster's words in speaking of Hamilton, to describe what Mr. Gushing did for the solemn rows of back volumes of our honored...heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening everything away but mice and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1895 - 644 pages
...thought of the best American scholars during the greater portion of the century was brought to Rght by the work of the indexmaker as truly as were the...heap themselves into chaotic piles and bundles which are worse than useless, taking up a great deal of room, and frightening everything away but mice and... | |
| 1896 - 616 pages
...Finally, an author, subject and title card-catalog must be kept up to date, no matter what the expense. " Who wants a lock without a key, a ship without a rudder,...signature, a greenback without a goldback behind it?" (O- W. Holmes.) - Maryland Medical Journal Condensed Table of Mortality in Cleveland for May, 1 89... | |
| 1896 - 906 pages
...subject, and title card-catalogue must be kept up to date, no matter what the expense. "Who wants alock without a key, a ship without a rudder, a binnacle...signature, a greenback without a goldback behind it?" [OW Holmes.] Before closing, I want to say a word about pamphlets, with regard to which you will have... | |
| Anna Lorraine Guthrie - 1915 - 1468 pages
...167 COMPOSITE BOOKS 1910-1914 THE HW WILSON COMPANY WHITE PLAINS, NY AND NEW YORK CITY (cil AGREAT portion of the best writing and reading — literary,...signature, a greenback without a goldback behind it? Arranged, bound, indexed, all these at once become accessible and valuable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes.... | |
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