FIRST SERIES.— THIRTY-SECOND EDITION. 

 SECOND SERIES.— EIGHTH EDITION. 



MANY THOUGHTS OF MANY MINDS: 



A TBEASUBY OF KEFEBENCE, ' 

 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 evi- 

 dently the produce of years of re- 

 search. We look up any subject under 

 the sun, and are pretty sure to find 

 something that has been said — gene- 

 rally well said— upon it." — 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 fortunate enough to possess it. 

 Its perusal is like inhaling 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 extend over nearly the whole 

 known field of literature, ancient an 1 

 modern." — Gentleman's Magazine. 



"Here is matter suited to all 

 tastes, and illustrative of all opinions — 

 morals, politics, philosophy, and solid 

 information. "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 coiTCctness 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 accumula- 

 tion of treasures so truly wonderful." 

 — Morning Herald. 



"Mr. Southgate appears to have 

 ransacked every nook and corner for 

 gems of thought." — Allen's Indian 

 Mail. 



"The selection of the extracts has 

 been made with taste, judgment, and 

 official nicety."— Morning Post. 



" This is a wondrous book, and con- 

 tains 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 

 together in our language." — Tlie Field. 



'• Will be found to be worth its 

 weight in gold by literary men." — 

 The Builder. 



" All that the poet has described of 

 the beautiful in nature and art; aU 

 the wit that has flashed from preg- 

 nant minds; all the axioms of ex- 

 perience, the collected wisdom of 

 philosopher and sage, are garnered 

 into one heap of useful and well-ar- 

 ranged instruction and amusement." 

 —The Era. 



" The mind of almost all nations 

 and ages of the world is recorded 

 here." — John Bull. 



"This is not a law-book; but, de- 

 parting from our usual practice, we 

 notice it because it is likely to be 

 very useful to lawyers." — Late Times. 



"The collection will prove a mine, 

 rich and inexhaustible, to those in 

 search of a quotation." — Art Journal. 



" There is not, as. we have reason 

 to know, a single trashy sentence in 

 this volume. Open where we may, 

 every page is laden with the wealth 

 of profouudest thought, and all aglow 

 with the loftiest inspirations of genius. 

 To take this book into our hands is 

 like sitting down to a grand con- 

 versazione with the greatest thinkers 

 of all ages." — Star. 



"The work of Mr. Southgate far 

 outstrips all others of its kind. To 

 the clergyman, the author, the artist, 



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and the essayist, 'Many Thoughts of 

 Many Minds' cannot fail to render 

 almost incalculable service." — Edin- 

 burgh 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 

 language that will bear a moment's 

 comparison with it." — Manchester 

 Weekly Advertiser. 



"There is no mood in which we 

 can take it up without dei-iving from 

 it instruction, consolation, and amuse- 

 ment. We heartily thank Mr. South- 

 gate for a book which we shall regard 

 as one of our best friends and com- 

 panions." — Cambridge Chronicle. 



" This work possesses the merit of 

 being a magnificent gift-book, appro- 

 priate to all times and seasons — a book 

 calculated to be of use to the scholar, 

 the divine, or the public man." — 

 Freemasons' Magazine. 



"It is not so much a book as a 

 library of quotations." — Patriot. 



" The quotations abound in that 

 thought which is the mainspring of 

 mental exercise." — Liveiyool Courier. 



"For purposes of apposite quota- 

 tion it cannot be sm'passed."— Z?/'i5/o; 

 Times. 



" It is impossible to pick out a 

 single passage in the work which 

 does not, upon the face of it, justify 

 its selection by its intrinsic merit." — 

 Dorset Chronicle. 



" We are not surprised that a Second 

 Series of this work should have been 

 called for. Mr. Southgate has the 

 catholic tastes desirable in a good 

 editor. Preachers and public speakers 

 will find that it has special uses for 

 Xh.exQ..''— Edinburgh Daily Review. 



" The Second Series fully sustains 

 the deserved reputation of the First." 

 — John Bull. 



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