GLEANINGS FOR THE CURIOUS FROM THE Harvest-Fields of Literature. A MELANGE OF EXCERPTA,
Reading edition
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.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
1890.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
A. D. WORTHINGTON & CO.
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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