It is a little book, Gentle Reader, but please don't let that prejudice you against it. The General Public, I know, likes to feel heft in its hand when it buys a book, but I had hoped that you were a peg or two above the General Public. That mythical being goes on a reading spree about every so often, and it selects a book which will probably last out the craving, a book which "it will be impossible to lay down, after it is once begun, until it is finished." (I quote from the standard book notice). A few hours later the following dialogue ensues:英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Libraries destroyed by Fire.--Alexandrian. Paul's destruction of MSS., Value of.--Christian books destroyed by Heathens.--Heathen books destroyed by Christians.--Hebrew books burnt at Cremona.--Arabic books at Grenada.--Monastic libraries.-- Colton library.--Birmingham riots.--Dr. Priestley's library.-- Lord Mansfield's books.--Cowper.--Strasbourg library bombarded.-- Offor Collection burnt.--Dutch Church library damaged.-- Iibrary of Corporation of London.英文原著 · 《Enemies of Books》
Out-of-door books and stories about animals, Books about Indians, Travellers' tales and stories of adventure, Books that tell how to do things, Books about pictures and music, A great author and his friends (Sir Walter Scott), Another great author and his short stories (Washington Irving), Old-fashioned books for boys and girls. The talks have been kept up ever since.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
I came up to him and addressed him, but he was so intent on his book that, though I spoke, he lifted not his eyes. I looked on the book also, and still it seemed a Bible, having columns, chapters, and verses; but it was in a language of which I was wholly ignorant, and all intersected with red lines and verses. A sensation resembling a stroke of electricity came over me, on first casting my eyes on that mysterious book, and I stood motionless. He looked up, smiled, closed his book, and put it in his bosom. "You seem strangely affected, dear sir, by looking at my book," said he mildly.英文原著 · 《The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner》
He says, book ii, that the Romans employed a hundred and twenty ships in that trade; and, in book xvii, that the Grecian kings scarcely employed twenty. Book i, 2. Book i, 13. Our best maps place Peter's tower in the hundredth degree of longitude, and about the fortieth of latitude. Suetonius, Life of Claudius, 18; Leg. Theodos. de naviculariis. Book viii, tit.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
My fondness for books began very early. At the age of four I had formed the plan of collecting a library. Not of limp, paper- covered picture-books, such as people give to babies; no! I wanted books with stiff covers, that could stand up side by side on a shelf, and maintain their own character as books. But I did not know how to make a beginning, for mine were all of the kind manufactured for infancy, and I thought they deserved no better fate than to be tossed about among my rag-babies and playthings.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
It feels like a book. I think it's a book. Feels like a book. And it's a book!美剧 · 《Friends》