Ecclesiastical Records: Three Lectures (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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A Keeper of mss. May be allowed to try to picture to himself some of these men and the tools and materials they used, and a Librarian to be not altogether unmindful of the circumstances in which their work was done. It would be tempting to depict that scene in the Far East where a man clothed in white linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side, is marking the people, as the prophet saw him by the river Chebar. It is still more tempting to skip eight centuries and look inside a student's room which will be famous while scholarship endures. Seated there is a man with a history. Years ago, when his father died for the Faith he believed, he had been left, a lad of seventeen, the eldest of seven children, to support himself and his family. For a time a rich woman, a widow, helped the poor student, and then he parted with his only wealth, a few fine copies of ancient authors - we can judge what it must have meant - to a purchaser who allowed him 6d. A day for several years, sufficient for his personal needs. He teaches, and his fame as a teacher grows year by year, though not without doubts and jealousies. And now in the prime of life he sits here, still rigorously austere to himself, but wonderfully attractive to others, and at last with everything at hand that a scholar could desire. It is a pleasant room, looking out upon an inner courtyard, where a fountain, no doubt, and perhaps even trees, afford a refreshing contrast to the fierce glare of an Eastern sun. The scene is a busier one than the quiet peace of Durer's imaginative picture.

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