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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
Lacon
Charles Caleb
Colton

 

Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay

Authors, 544; Subjects, 572; Quotations, 8991

Compiled by S. Austin Allibone

These often lengthy selections from the best of English prose innovators satisfy the researcher looking for in-depth reflections and the writer looking for the best sentences ever written.

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., 1880
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

Category Index
Abridgments to Zeal
 
Featured Entries
Age, Authors, Authorship, Bible, Books, Children, Christianity, Conscience, Conversation, Criticism, Death, Drama, Education, England, Friendship, Futurity, God, Good, Government, Happiness, History, Infidelity, Knowledge, Languages, Law, Lawyers, Life, Love, Man, Manners, Matrimony, Morals, Oratory, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Religion, States, Style, Virtue, War, Woman, Words
Primary Author Index
Abercrombie to Zimmermann
 
Featured Entries
Addison, Atterbury, Bacon, Bentley, Browne, Burke, Carlyle, Charnock, Chesterfield, Coleridge, Collier, Colton, Dryden, Foster, Goldsmith, Hall, Hooker, Household Words, Johnson, L’Estrange, Locke, Macaulay, Milton, Montaigne, Pope, Raleigh, South, Steele, Swift, Taylor, Temple, Tillotson, Watts, Whately