The Manchester public free libraries; a history and description, and guide to their contents and use . THE HULME BRANCH. 65 and gaze with delight at their lovely colours and gracefulforms. The floral wealth of the world is gathered forour enjoyment; tropical plants of strange form, exquisitefoliage, delicate pencillings, infinite variety, all this is oursfor the time, the owner cannot monopolize the wholefruits of his taste, and labour, and expenditure, and heseldom is so selfish as to wish it; if only we have thetaste and feeling to appreciate all the wonders andbeauties gathered at that plac
The Manchester public free libraries; a history and description, and guide to their contents and use . THE HULME BRANCH. 65 and gaze with delight at their lovely colours and gracefulforms. The floral wealth of the world is gathered forour enjoyment; tropical plants of strange form, exquisitefoliage, delicate pencillings, infinite variety, all this is oursfor the time, the owner cannot monopolize the wholefruits of his taste, and labour, and expenditure, and heseldom is so selfish as to wish it; if only we have thetaste and feeling to appreciate all the wonders andbeauties gathered at that place, then, for the time atleast, they are ours, and we need envy no one, but ratherrejoice in our present pleasure, and come away refinedand refreshed, having our minds stored with many apleasant thought, and our imagination raised from sensualand sordid things to things high, and pure, and lovely,worthy of the attention of intelligent and immortal beingsmade in the image of God. And is not the great worldof books a field of pleasure of such a kind ? From everyquarter of the world, from every countr
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