 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...matter 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...measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, hare been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Slialum. But... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...matter 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...measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shallum. But... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. and who possessed an amplitude and subtlety of mind,...in active or in contemplative life, and fitted them primed pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. !" and the "No, sir !" and the " You dont Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shallum. But... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 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...measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shallum. But... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 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 sixty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 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 of paper which lies before us, bener than by saying, that it consists of about two thousand closely printed pages, that it occupies... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...would furnish out an ordinary book ; and the bouk contains as much reading as an ordinary library. well known to politicians as an industrious and useful...of the most moderate, and, at the same time, one of snd that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...out an ordinary book ; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum np the merits of the stupendous mass of paper which lies...measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Hhalltim.... | |
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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... 
