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...enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Laborers Together | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among the rarest is a book of Aquinas' printed by Guttenberg There are also several illuminated manuscripts, one of the "Order of the Passover" in Hebrew, and two or three of the "Officium Beatae Virginis et quaedam alia" and the first engraved map of the world, believed to be a copyright of the one made by Columbus in 1498, representing Greenland and America as part of Asia. Besides these there are some collections of very rare autographs and letters including one of John Milton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Books in the Library. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

Legi cum multa voluptate epistolam Quindecim Harvardensium in vestro numero hujus hebdomadis. Sunt autem in ea quaedam expressiones quae eram attonitus videre; quia videntur mihi non satis classicae. Pro exemplo, "Multi Bullyi" debet esse (existimo) "Sortes Bullyorum," quia est multa differentia inter "Multi" et "Sortes," ut omne corpus scit. Exceptionem quoque caperem ad expressionem "ludum vilis globi" quae non in ullo bono scriptore possis invenire, et quae in mea opinione debet esse "humilis pilae." Non scire hoc crassam ignoran tiam arguit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/14/1887 | See Source »

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