FIRST SERIES— THIRTY-SIXTH EDITION. 

 SECOND SERIES— TENTH EDITION. 



MANY THOUGHTS OF MAM MINDS: 



A Treasury of Reference, consisting of Selections from the Writings of the 

 most Celebrated Authors. FIRST AND SECOND SERIES. 



COMPILED AND ANALYTICALLY ARRANGED 



By HENRY 



SOUTHGATE. 



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"'Many Thoughts,' &c, are evidently the pro- 

 duce of years of research."— Examiner. 



"Many beautiful examples of thought and style 

 are to be found among the selections."— Leader. 



" There can be little doubt that it is destined to 

 take a high place among books of this class."— 

 Notes and Queries. 



" A treasure to every reader who may be fortu- 

 nate enough to possess it. Its perusal is like in- 

 haling essences ; we have the cream only of the 

 great authors quoted. Here all are seeds or gems." 

 —English Journal of Education. 



"Mr. Southgate's reading will be found to ex- 

 tend over nearly the whole known field of litera- 

 ture, ancient and modern." — Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine. 



" We have no hesitation in pronouncing it one 

 of the most important books of the season. Credit 

 is due to the publishers for the elegance with which 

 the work is got up, and for the extreme beauty 

 and correctness of the typography. " — Morning 

 Chronicle. 



" Of the numerous volumes of the kind, we do 

 not remember having met with one in which the 

 selection was more judicious, or the accumulation 

 of treasures so truly wonderful."— Morning Htrald. 



" The selection of the extracts has been made 

 with taste, judgment, and critical nicety. "—Morning 

 Post. 



" This is a wondrous book, and contains a great 

 many gems of thought."— Daily News. 



" As a work of reference, it will be an acquisition 

 to any man's library."— Publishers' Circular. 



" This volume contains more gems of thought, 

 refined sentiments, noble axioms, and extractable 

 sentences, than have ever before been brought to- 

 gether in our language."— The Field. 



" All that the poet has described of the beautiful 

 in nature and art, all the axioms of experience, 

 the collected wisdom of philosopher and sage, are 

 garnered into one heap of useful and well-arrauged 

 instruction and amusement.' —The Era. 



" The collection will prove a mine rich and in- 

 exhaustible, to those in search of a quotation."— 

 At t Journal. 



" Will be found to be worth its weight in gold 

 by literary men." — The Builder. 



" Every page is laden with the wealth of pro- 

 foundest thought, and all aglow with the loftiest 

 inspirations of genius."— Star. 



" The work of Mr. Southgate far outstrips all 

 others of its kind. To the clergymen, the author, 

 the artist, and the essayist, 'Many Thoughts of Many 

 Minds' cannot fail to render almost incalculable 

 service. "—Edinburgh Mercury. 



" We have no hesitation whatever in describing 

 Mr. Southgate's as the very best book of the class. 

 There is positively nothing of the kind in the lan- 

 guage that will bear a moment's comparison with 

 it. "— Manchester Weekly Advertiser. 



" There is no mood in which we can take it up 

 without deriving from it instruction, consolation, 

 and amusement. We heartily thank Mr. Southgate 

 for a book which we shall regard as one of 

 our best friends and companions." — Cambridge 

 Chronicle. 



" This work possesses the merit of being a 

 magnificent gift-book, appropriate to all times 

 and seasons ; a book calculated to be of use to 

 the scholar, the divine, and the public man."— 

 Freemason's Magazine. 



" It is not so much a book as a library of quota- 

 tions."— Patriot. 



" The quotations abound in that thought which 

 is the mainspring of mental exercise."— Liverpool 

 Courier. 



"For purposes of apposite quotation, it cannot 

 be surpassed."— Bristol Times. 



"It is impossible to pick out a single passage in 

 the work which does not, upon the face of it, jus- 

 tify its selection by its intrinsic merit." — Dorset 

 Chronicle. 



"We are not surprised that a Second Series of 

 this work should have been called lor. Mr. South- 

 gate, has the catholic tastes desirable in a good 

 Editor. Preachers and public speakers will find 

 that it has special uses for them. "— Edinburgh Daily 

 Me view. 



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 reputation of the First." — John Bull. 



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