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FOR THE CURIOUS

FROM THE

Harvest-Fields of Literature.

A MELANGE OF EXCERPTA,

COLLATED BY

C. C. BOMBAUGH, A.M., M.D.

"So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned and
it was about an ephah of barley."-RUTH 2:17.

"I have here made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my
own but the string that ties them."-MONTAIGNH.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

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AIMBOLIAD

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
A. D. WORTHINGTON & CO.

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Prefatory.

PN43 B62 1874

I am not ignorant, ne unsure, that many there are, before whose sight this Book shall ände small grace, and lesse favour. Zo hard a thing it is to write or indite any matter, whatsoever it be, that should be able to sustaine and abide the variable judgement, and to obtaine or winne the constant love and allowance of every man, especially if it containe in it any novelty or unwonted strangenesse.-RAYNALD'S WOMAN'S BOOK.

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