“I learn the depth to which I have sunk from the length of the chain let down to up-draw me. I ascertain the mightiness of the ruin by examining the machinery for restoration.”

—  Henry Melvill

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 547.

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British academic 1798–1871

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