book-worship

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It would be easy to run over, in this way, the list of all our great authors, and to shew that book-worship, as contradistinguished from a wise and discriminating respect, is nothing more than a vulgar superstition.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Various 1836
It is no wonder, then, that common readers should be mistaken in their book-worship.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Various 1836