On 7 Sep 2000, 17:52, Robert Turnbull wrote:
> >George Macaulay Trevelyan
> >Autobiography and Other Essays
> >Longmans, Green, 1949
> >
> >http://www.inch.com/~buehler/quotes.html
>
> Beats me how you did that! I had searched extensively and come up with
> nada.
I made good use of the quote technique in searching.
I began with the passage you gave us and took your first line:
"once on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground"
I entered that passage as a quote to force the search engine to look
for that exact phrase.
That was not giving me exactly what you sought, but I was able to find
the correct full passage of the quote. I started again with the first
line of the famous quote, or rather a string from the first line:
"The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact"
I used Google's Advanced search and set the search on "the phrase." I
then just followed up on the results by visiting sites till one of the
sites showed the actual source to which you were seeking.
Man, that Trevalyan quote is all over the Internet! <g> I don't want
to mislead you that my finding the answer was easy. I did some
stumbling about before I got on the right trail. I was checking
Encyclopedia sites; meta-search engines and eventually returned to
Google, where I originally started my search.
Often in searching for something to which we have little knowledge, we
increase our knowledge of a subject while we are looking for a
particular answer. As our knowledge of the subject increases, then our
ability to search becomes improved. With increased knowledge of a
subject, your ability to conjure keywords and phrases for your search,
improves.
Alan
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