A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
Lord Acton, vol. 3 of Selected Writings: Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics/ Fund, 1988), 620:
Resist your time—take a foothold outside it—see other times and ask yourself whether the time of our ancestors is fit for us.
Knowledge of history means choice of ancestors.
George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse & Other Essays (London/New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1949 [1913]), 162-3: . . . hi...
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