# bib

id: 31072
author: Saintsbury, George
title: A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing
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  But the point is that their excellency, _as_ letters, does not depend on their enclosures (as we may call them) or even directly on their importance as biography which is certainly consummate. Indeed the method of _Redgauntlet_ is a kind of retreat to the elder and more modern--one may say the more artistic and rational--plan of _introducing_ letters, but only occasionally as auxiliaries to, and as it were illustrations of, the actual narrative, not as substitutes for, or at any rate main constituents of, it.[52] Indeed, in order to make a novel wholly composed of letters thoroughly and absorbingly attractive, either charm of style such as to make the kind of literature in which it appears, more or less indifferent; or passion which is more suitable to poetry or drama than to prose; or both, may seem unnecessary.


id: 603
author: Borrow, George
title: Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society
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  I can already, with the assistance of Amyot, _translate Mandchou_ with no great difficulty, and am perfectly qualified to write a critique on the version of St. Matthew's Gospel, which I brought with me into the country. In about an hour and a half we emerged from the forest and entered upon wild broken ground covered with _mato_ or brushwood.


id: 12515
title: Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries)
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  I do not seek _new_ friends, not being altogether sure that I should find them, but have unspeakable pleasure in being still beloved by an old one. They are unworthy of the time, and of the ink that they would consume; leave such _minutiae_ to dull, penny-wise fellows; but remember in economy, as well as in every other part of life, to have the proper attention to proper objects, and the proper contempt for little ones.


