The Pleasures of An Absentee Landlord, And Other Essays
The Pleasures of An Absentee Landlord, And Other Essays
Crothers, Samuel Mcchord, 1857-1927
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Wherefore it seemeth to me both a safe and cheap receipt to procure quiet and repose to the mind that complains of want of rest to prescribe the reading of History. Great is the pleasure and profit thereof. " In following his own humor Fuller may have transgressed many of the conventions of formal history for which he finds ready pardon. Our mining law declares that "A man is en titled to his vein and all its dips, spurs, and angles, although it may depart so far from the perpendicular as to pa...ss the side lines of the location within the plane of the lines extended. " Fuller would have paid no attention to the no THOMAS FULLER AND perpendicular lines limiting his subject and di viding the "Church History of Britain" from other interesting objects of thought. The lover of Fuller s vein is content to follow it through all its dips and spurs and angles, without regard to the side lines of the location. If we do not find what we expected, we find something else which is of more value. And after all, I am not sure but that Fuller may have given us an essential truth which the more systematic historians often overlook.
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