Collected Editions Volume

Famous quotes containing the words collected, editions and/or volume:

    “He that would the daughter win
    Must with the mother first begin.”
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

    “The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
    —José Bergamín (1895–1983)