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...that this was heavy odds, and finding it was now half-past three, Henry did not attempt to enter the cave, but was about to pass on when he was grabbed violently by the arm. "???" cried a voice; and he saw a person little older than himself with a note-book and pencil. "Two dollars a year; your name, please...
...have read this to Popkins, who is an aspirant, and he is delighted with it. He complains, however, that the hardest work is to collect material for the dissertation. I am surprised at this; the process is so simple. Take your note-book and go to the Library. Consult encyclopaedias first; if the Brittanica treats the subject, you need look no farther. Then take Poole's Index, and hunt up magazine articles. If there are any books on the subject, don't read them; but read the reviews, for a good review contains the cream of the book all ready...
Emerson, it is said, keeps a huge note-book by him night and day, in which to record every brilliant thought, and whenever he has filled a dozen pages in this way he selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...
...think, therefore, that those who lived eighty or a hundred years after him might desire the same information in regard to the time in which he lived, and he resolved, as far as lay in his power, to furnish this information. Accordingly he carried a note-book with him on his travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through which he passed, the customs of the people, and any peculiarities which struck him as worth preserving. These notes he afterwards embodied into letters addressed to an English gentleman, and published them in four large...
...besides these hundred and fifty graduates, every closing of the college term in June sets free six hundred students, who are soon scattered to every part of this country, and, we may almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note-book of each man, we might form a cosmopolitan scrap-book of experience that would be amusing, not to say instructive. O for a telescope of unlimited power, to see our friends of the midnight oil "clothed in purple and fine linen," displaying their charms of face and figure...