tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post279174381587534300..comments2024-03-26T12:01:39.690-07:00Comments on A Family Tapestry: "Now We Try a Boundless Sea"Jacqi Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-60859722690990358462014-03-08T22:28:54.947-08:002014-03-08T22:28:54.947-08:00I had seen that book...and one other like it...so ...I had seen that book...and one other like it...so it definitely helps to know the explanation. Of course, it would have been nice, in the editor's quest to preserve these "sufficiently valuable" utterances, to also preserve the name of the author who created the original sentiment. I would have loved to see the context from which the sentence was extracted.<br /><br />Thanks, Iggy, for pointing out that editorial explanation :)Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-35164784090550807652014-03-06T08:56:49.783-08:002014-03-06T08:56:49.783-08:00There was a book titled "Gems of literature, ...There was a book titled "Gems of literature, liberty and patriotism: a collection of sixteen hundred choice, graded memory gems, supplemented with three hundred maxims, mottoes and proverbs" published in 1900 that included this (and many other) mottoes, saying the sources were "...In preparing this volume some writers almost unknown to literature have been drawn upon for the simple reason that their utterances have seemed sufficiently valuable because of their logic or terseness or beauty or originality to justify their preservation."<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=hpNUAAAAYAAJ<br />Intense Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441598926026727682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-74805265920462656822014-03-02T22:21:17.924-08:002014-03-02T22:21:17.924-08:00I had never heard it either, Far Side, which made ...I had never heard it either, Far Side, which made it doubly surprising to see all the hits I got when I Googled it!Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-85682749282328394712014-03-02T18:36:14.163-08:002014-03-02T18:36:14.163-08:00I have not heard that class motto before:)I have not heard that class motto before:)Far Side of Fiftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.com