![]() ![]() Among the twenty-first century British observers of Chapters 2 and 3 some had gathered their own collections over the years, others possessed and used one or more of the many published compilations, others again knew of their existence even if they made little use of them or questioned the motives of those who did. Jewels five-words-long That on the stretch’d fore-finger of all timeġMany people today have a collection of quotations on their shelves – not everyone, but not just the highly learned either. Of the doctors at hand rather than too many Since the sea of original books is like a great and wide ocean that cannot beĮxplored by just anyone, it seemed to me more useful to have a few sayings 2 Preface to Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum, transl.
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