"I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author’s name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. [...] A quotation without a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality."
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Academics from EnglandUniversity of Cambridge alumniAnglicans from the United KingdomPhilologistsChurch of England clergy
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In Notes and Queries, 6th ser., vol. 9 (January–June 1884), p. 499. Last sentence quoted as an epigraph in W. F. H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), title page
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Walter William Skeat
Walter William Skeat, FBA (21 November 1835 – 6 October 1912) was a British philologist and Anglican deacon. The pre-eminent British philologist of his time, he was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom.
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