Samuel Egerton Brydges Quote

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.


Censura Literaria (ed. 1808)


There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they...

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they...

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they...

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they...