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Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
No doubt there are times and seasons in the lives
of most reading men when they rebel against the dust
of libraries and kick against the pr...
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Augustine Birrell was born in Liverpool on 19 January 1850 to Charles Morton Birrell, a highly respected Baptist minister of Scottish birth, and Harriet Jane Grey Birrell. At sixteen, after a sound ed...
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In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays
Augustine Birrell