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• Title: Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851
• Author : Various Authors
• Release Date : January 01, 2012
• Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 63 KB

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This is a notes book. Twenty scholars in seven years might retrieve the worst losses we experience from the bigotry of popes and califs. I do not intend to assert that every Herculanean manuscript might, within that period, be unfolded; but the three first legible sentences might be; which is quite sufficient to inform the intelligent reader whether a farther attempt on the scroll would repay his trouble. There are fewer than thirty Greek authors worth inquiring for; they exist, beyond doubt, and beyond doubt they may, by attention, patience, and skill, be brought to light. With a smaller sum than is annually expended on the appointment of some silly and impertinent young envoy, we might restore all, or nearly all those writers of immortal name, whose disappearance has been the regret of genius for four entire centuries. In my opinion, a few thousand pounds, laid out on such an undertaking, would be laid out as creditably as on a Persian carpet or a Turkish tent'. —Landor's Imaginary Conversations—Southey and Porson—Works, vol. i.

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