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Excerpt From Life Of Sir Stamford Raffles II
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Among the men who have established the political and commercial power of this country in the seas of India and China, no one would deny a foremost place to Stamford Raffles. This silent acquiescence is the tribute paid by national gratitude to the greatness of a name, when the precise nature of the man’s work [...]
Excerpt From Life Of Sir Stamford Raffles I
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Excerpt From Life Of Sir Stamford Raffles – Clouds and Death Raffles had never been physically a strong man, and the little strength he possessed had been so sapped by the sustained and indefatigable labours which he undertook in the course of his public duty, that it is not surprising to find that his health [...]
Quotes about Books V
Thursday, July 31st, 2008The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man: nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still [...]
Quotes About Books III
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, – so much help By so much reading. it is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth – ‘T is then we get the right good [...]
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