ABOUT WOMEN A LITERARY MOSAIC BY MATURIN M. BALLOU Shepherd. Thanks, gentle Echo! right thy answers tell 1882 808.9 Copyright, 1882, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Some readers delight in abstracts and epitomes. - JOHNSON. We have been at a great feast of languages, and have stolen all the scraps.-SHAKESPEARE. To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. - ABBE TRUBLET. Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. — PLUTARCH. If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. — JEREMY TAYLOR. |