 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 466 pages
...what was in its lifetime mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat-bed, of some value as fuel ;• it is capable of yielding...student should consult such of these as time has spared ; all the four divisions of the literature of a period which I have mentioned, should engage his attention,... | |
 | Jules Michelet - Europe - 1847 - 440 pages
...what was in its lifetime mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat-bed, of some value as fuel ; it is capable of yielding...student should consult such of these as time has spared ; all the four divisions of the literature of a period which I have mentioned, should engage his attention,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1849 - 336 pages
...an accidental value ; what was in its life-time mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat bed, of some value as fuel ; it...student should consult such of these as time has spared ; all the four divisions of the literature of a period which I have mentioned should engage his attention,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1849 - 336 pages
...an accidental value ; what was in its life-time mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat bed, of some value as fuel ; it...student should consult such of these as time has spared ; all the four divisions of the literature of a period which I Rave mentioned should engage his attention,... | |
 | Walter Debenham Sweeting, John Taylor - Northampton (England) - 1886 - 358 pages
...Sonnet on Old Ruralities. What was in its life-time mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat bed, of some value as fuel ; it...student should consult such of these as time has spared. AIINOI-D, Modern History, Lecture i. PAET VII.— JULY, 1885. I think that it should be the aim Of... | |
 | William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge - Gloucestershire (England) - 1890 - 780 pages
...and brief." BUTLER " What was in its life-time mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat bed, of some value as fuel ; it...period contain in them both instruction and amusement. TJie historical student should consult such of these as time has glared." ARNOLD " What beautiful diversity... | |
 | Bedfordshire (England) - 1924 - 486 pages
...all with antiquarian tastes. Matthew Arnold has well said that " even the most worthless pieces of literature of a remote period, contain in them both instruction and amusement, historical students should consult such of these as time has spared."4 The words with abbreviation... | |
 | 1842 - 782 pages
...What was in its lifetime mere moss, becomes, in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat-bed, of some value as fuel ; it is capable of yielding...period, contain in them both instruction and amusement." — P. 97. " The greater or less importance of • representative assembly is like the quicksilver... | |
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... and tales which no man reads twice, and only an indiscriminate literary voracity would read once. Time gives even to this mass of rubbish an accidental value ; what was in its life-time mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in... 