"Unlike modern readers, who follow the flow of a narrative from beginning to end, early modern Englishmen read in fits…"

"God is for man the commonplace book where he registers his highest feelings and thoughts, the genealogical album into…"

"Just about anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep a commonp…"

"Yet it is of Service to have Collections of this Kind, both that Students may learn the Art of putting Things in Orde…"

"When I meet with any thing, that I think fit to put into my common-place-book, I first find a proper head. Suppose fo…"

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"

"Anyone who is interested in birds eventually reaches the point when he or she joins the , or loses enthusiasm. The Tr…"