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"Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries"
John D. Shortridge
His austere but not unhappy life was spent largely among books and in museums; his profound and patiently accumulated knowledge of a number of curiously disconnected subjects which had stirred his interest at different times had given him a place in the quiet, half-lit world of professors and curators and devotees of research; at their amiable, unconvivial dinner-parties he was most himself.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
The central power of Rome, though no longer exerted politically through curators and prefects, was no less effective in the potent hands of the clergy and in the traditions of the imperial jurisprudence by which the legal ideas of mediaeval society were so strongly coloured.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske