Transcriber’s Note:
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GLEANINGS
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.”—Montaigne.
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J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.