Word: blougram
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...rice and rugs, that daily pass his inspection. What is he to base the value on--selling price in this country, value to the dealer, or literary value for the ages? If he is to pass upon a Shakespeare quarto of the Seventeenth Century and a volume of Bishop Blougram's sermons of 1880, which will be tax the higher? The latter is a bigger book, in better condition; no doubt the Shakespeare collector will be satisfied; but what of the divinity student who needs Blougram for a thesis...