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An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest, and the man who can restore and read it a paleographist.— The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
So rich a palimpsest is French civilization, so varied is French scenery, so multifarious the points of view called up at every town, that hurry and scurry leave us hardly better informed than when we set out.— In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
So rich a palimpsest is French civilization, so varied is— In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
a palimpsest is my brain; such a palimpsest, O reader! is yours.— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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