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Little piece (book review) on indexes and indexing. Good books have good indexes. (I really want to write "indices.") Robert Latham, editor of the … gulfstream/713

Pepys’s diary, known as a “diary” for almost 200 years, is now being repositioned as a weblog... First webloggers declare newspapers’ days … gulfstream/996

Quotes Collected

So I away to the Temple to my new bookseller's, and there I did agree for Rycaut's late history of the Turkish Policy, which costs me 55s.; whereas it … pepys/274

.. and Dr. Crew did make a very pretty, neat, sober, honest sermon; and delivered it very readily, decently, and gravely, beyond his years---so as I was … pepys/272

But Lord, what silly discourse we [Mr. Carteret and I] had by the way as to matter of love-matters, he being the most awkerd man I ever I met withall … pepys/153

This day dined by appointment with me Dr. Tho. Pepys and my Cosen Snow and my brother Tom, upon a Fin of Ling and some Sounds, neither of which did I … pepys/52

It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all, but the ways are dusty and the flyes fly up and down, and the rosebushes are full … pepys/32