Famous quotes containing the words special and/or editions:
“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will comethe readiness is
all.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Pauls, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)