"The present unfortunate propensity of filling tomes of quartos and octavos with marvellous accounts of the lives of men and women, who, during their existence, produced no impression on the publick mind, and who were not known beyond the circle of their immediate friends, or the mountains, which bounded the horizon of their native villages, is preposterous and absurd," Sparks wrote.
The rise and fall of the Roman Empire fills tomes lining countless bookshelves.
Mr. Hayawi died in 2007, as a car bomb tore through his bookstore filled with tomes of ayatollahs, predictions by astrologers and poems of Communist intellectuals.
Publishing houses are filling bookstores with tomes for those who stumbled in the housing game and for those who may benefit from the foreclosure crisis.
The list of relatives involved in presidential embarrassments could fill a tome in a presidential library.
Remember when airport bookstores were filled with management tomes bearing samurai warriors on their covers?
The space is packed with rows of shelves filled with weighty tomes on subjects like history, philosophy, women's studies and math.
When he arrived in Reno in 1969 to join the university's economics faculty, he recalled, he expected to find a library "filled with scholarly tomes dedicated to the nuances of gambling".
Some will know Ai Weiwei was handcuffed and interrogated repeatedly when arrested in 2011; many may not.The palace's library, a long, light-dappled room designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736) and filled with historic tomes, gilded domes and a nineteenth-century organ, is now also home to Mr Ai's "Study of Perspective" series.
The defense's medical library is located in Puccio's suite where a bookshelf is filled with such tomes as "Principles of Neurology" and "Diabetes Mellitus". Von Bu low, who is staying on the same floor of the hotel, comes in every morning at 8 30 for coffee with Puccio and he stops in every night.
Today, the club is a veritable church to life on the water, adorned with plaster molds of seaweed, sea monsters, and ships; a library filled with yachting tomes and maps; and a wooden elevator fitted with a bench for an operator.
