Proceedings At The Opening Of The Library Of The University Of Pennsylvania PDF Download

Excerpt from Proceedings at the Opening of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania: 7th of February, 1891 As this is a home gathering, surely a little boasting of our wealth in a home circle may be pardoned, and in thus reckon ing up our gains among close friends and gossips, as we all are, it cannot be thought amiss if I am personal and mention names. Among the earliest and most notable benefactors of our Library stands His Majesty Louis XVI of France who, in 1784, at the instance of the Count de Vergennes, presented over a hundred volumes on Literature, History, and Science. These books were evidently selected, with great nicety, to meet the intellectual needs of this community; so nicely and accurately, indeed that they have been almost entirely assimilated and consumed - at least, this is the most natural way, I think, of accounting on the one hand for our intellectual eminence among the cities of the land, and, on the other, for the almost total dis appearance of these royal books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.