The Book of Familiar Quotations —— Being a Collection of Popular Extracts and Aphorisms From the Works of the Best Authors

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ISBN: 9781330593394 出版年：2016 页码：315 L C Gent Forgotten Books

In preparing this volume for the press, a great deal of research has of necessity been incurred, and for the facilities afforded him for reference by several gentle men to whom he has applied, the Compiler desires to tender his sincere acknowledgments. He especially desires to record the attention he has received from Mr. Smiles, the obliging librarian of the Manchester Free Library, and from Mr. Perris of the Lyceum Library, Liverpool. He also has to recognize the courtesy of Mr. Murray in placing some Copyright portions of Lord Byron's works at his disposal. Mr. Grocott, of Liverpool, too, himself the author of a useful volume of Quotations, is thanked for some information which he.