Some compiler of statistics has calculated, that if all the volumes which have issued from the press since Gutenberg's day were to be piled one upon another, they would fill the space between the earth and the moon; but it is not that sort of grandeur of which we wished to speak.
Je ne sais quel faiseur de statistique a calculé qu’en superposant l’un à l’autre tous les volumes sortis de la presse depuis Gutenberg on comblerait l’intervalle de la terre à la lune ; mais ce n’est pas de cette sorte de grandeur que nous voulons parler.