 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the ments uf the stupendous mass of paper which lies before us...it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto page-., that ¡! occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic mensure, and that it weighs sixty pounds... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 pages
...would furnish oat an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. oun Wina, are the first to cateh and to reflcc the...below is still in darkness. Bu soon the light, which elosely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cuhic measure, and that it weighs... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 pages
...the merits of the stupendous A 6wOTk.aOUS mass of PaPer which lics before ns, better than by Baying, sh and fifty millions ; and it urc ' will be difficult...amount to a hundred and twenty millions. Nor do we see Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalnm. But... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. H / / / Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum. But... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 584 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary bo»k; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass...it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measme, and that it weighs sixty pounds... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. other way. But the Company was now a ruling body....merchants, senior merchants. But they were in truth pro quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - 584 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass...saying that it consists of about two thousand closely MELODY, HARMONY, TASTE — DESCRIPTION. .116 printed qnarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred... | |
 | James Edmund Vincent - 1896 - 370 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book, and the book •contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass...us better than by saying that it consists of about 2000 •closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies 1500 inches cubic measure, and that it weighs... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the 10 stupendous mass of paper which lies before us better than by saying that it consists of about 2000 closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies l500 inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book : and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass...it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds... | |
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... as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic scale. The title is as long as an ordinary preface. The prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains... 
