 Money governs the world, and the market price is the measure of the worth of men as well as of fishes." — ROGER I/ESTRANGE "Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.  Public Libraries - Página 3831897Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1916 - 412 páginas
...opinion, reviewing many things in our law and literature, and reversed Keene v. Kimball. 102 " Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are...given in proportion to the goodness of the work done." Undoubtedly the " best seller " is not always or often the best book. But at all events an author need... | |
 | Henry C. Vedder - 1972 - 326 páginas
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 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...which nothing, as we believe, ministers eo largely as enlightened religion. — Cftannirtg. Literature ties and powers. — Daniel Webster. A day. an hour...virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity of bondage. — ÏVoucte. Literature is a great staff, hut a sorry crutch.— Waller Scott. When literature is... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1912 - 380 páginas
...standards is seen to have been considerable. Mr. Shaylor gives the bookseller no mean rank. He says: "Booksellers may console themselves by being classed...in proportion to the goodness of the work done.'" His paper on "Some Old Libraries" might at first glance mislead by its title; it discusses, not libraries... | |
 | Vardis Fisher - 1953 - 292 páginas
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 | Vardis Fisher - 1953 - 282 páginas
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 | N. B. Sen - 1967 - 390 páginas
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 | 1896 - 1040 páginas
...themselves by being classed with those who follow literature as a profession, and of whom Froude lias said, ' It happens to. be the only occupation in which...given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.' J. SHAYLOR (of Siailpkin, Alanludl, $ Co., Limited.) A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHES TERFIELD IN the year... | |
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