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• The extraordinary thing is that it is, as he at any rate supposed, the custom in other missions to make scholars and converts servants as a matter of course; and the difference lies not in the work which is done or not done by the one party or the other, but in the social relation of equality which subsists between them, and the spirit in which the work is asked for and rendered. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
• This work, a book of four hundred to five hundred pages, small octavo, entitled "Oper und Drama," has been ready these six weeks; but as yet none of the publishers to whom I wrote about it has replied, and my expectations at least of gain from this work are therefore very small. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
• For the work is genuinely a symbolic logic treatise, replete with servings of logic diagrams and algebraic notation. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
• The value of this work is diminished by the fact that the citations given are merely sub-sentence fragments from the corpus, which was assembled for the frequency study itself, thus denying users the opportunity to make full use of this important data. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
• One must bear in mind, too, that one of the most difficult of an editor's responsibilities in such a work is to rewrite articles submitted by contributors, with widely disparate writing styles, in order to make them, if not uniform, at least compatible. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3

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