Excerpt from Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations From the Religious Literature of All Ages Attention is arrested, interest is awakened, persuasion is se cured, by the mention oi some well-known author's name, and the waiting audience grow eager for the sentence which is com ing. Even if the purpose be no higher than mere ornamentation, the practice need not be despised. Beauty and utility are not necessarily and always to be divorced. We are told that Samuel Rogers, the Opulent poet, owned one of the very few notes of the value of a hundred thousand pounds issued by the Bank of England. He had it framed and hung in his reception room. Beautifully finished, it was as effective for decoration on his wall as any other engraving of the same dimensions and then it was in itself a fortune. So a writer can light up his disquisition some times with the issue oi some masterful mind's wealth it adorns with its shining, it enriches with its worth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.