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Augustine Birrell
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Quote 3507
He never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.Quote 3506
He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.Quote 3505
Bodley was always on the look-out for gifts and bequests from his store of honourable friends.Quote 3504
The plain intention of an honest man.Quote 3503
I seldom tire of retracing with my own hand the ipsissima verba whereby great and truly notable gifts have been bestowed upon nations or Universities or even municipalities for the advancement of learning and the spread of science.Quote 3502
The books and manuscripts being thus for sale, the wooden shelves, desks, and seats of the old library, and for the most part the contents of the library had been rescued from miserable ill-usage in the monasteries and chapter-houses where they had their first habitations.Quote 3501
They were barbarians and wreckers.Quote 3500
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.Quote 3499
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.Quote 3498
Sir Thomas Bodley's Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and glorious institution, one of England's sacred places.Quote 3497
It is perhaps best not to make too great demands upon our slender stock of deep emotions.Quote 3496
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.Quote 3495
The Bodleian at this moment harbours within its walls well-nigh half a million of printed volumes, some scores of precious manuscripts in all the tongues, and has become a name famous throughout the whole civilized world.Quote 1674
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