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MY
COMMONPLACE
BOOK
J. T. HACKETT
“Omne meum, nihil meum”
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
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First publication in Great Britain, September, 1919.
Second English Edition, September, 1920.
Third English Edition, January, 1921.
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O Memories!
O Past that is!
George Eliot.
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DEDICATED
TO MY
DEAR FRIEND
RICHARD HODGSON
WHO HAS PASSED OVER
TO THE OTHER SIDE
Of wounds and sore defeat
I made my battle-stay;
Wingèd sandals for my feet
I wove of my delay;
Of weariness and fear
I made my shouting spear;
Of loss, and, doubt, and dread,
And swift oncoming doom
I made a helmet for my head
And a floating plume.
From the shutting mist of death,
From the failure of the breath
I made a battle-horn to blow
Across the vales of overthrow.
O hearken, love, the battle-horn!
The triumph clear, the silver scorn!
O hearken where the echoes bring,
Down the grey disastrous morn,
Laughter and rallying![1]
William Vaughn Moody.
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I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.
Macbeth, IV, 3.
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PREFACE[2]
A large proportion of the most interesting quotations in thisbook was collected between 1874 and 1886. During that periodI was under the influence of Richard Hodgson, who was myclose friend from childhood. To him directly and indirectlythis book is largely indebted.
Hodgson (1855-1905) had a remarkably pure, noble, andlovable character, and was one of the most gifted men Australiahas produced. He is known in                         
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