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Page 1 - some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention — Francis Bacon, Of Studies
Page 1 - Step by step he walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Page 2 - things allied to the insubstantial, wait upon that master feeling; cold, numbness, dreams, perplexity; moonlight itself, with its shadowy and spectral appearances, — that cold ghost of the sun, or Phoebus' sickly sister, like that innutritious one denounced in the Canticles : — I am none of her minions — I hold with the Persian.