quote · Legacy record
I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which, to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which, to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Walter Savage Landor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1775–1864)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 28 · printed citation: Landor · subject: Bible
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