The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

Coventry Patmore

283 chapters · about 2 h

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The opening

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If you wish to influence the world for good, leave it, forget it, and think of nothing but your own interests.

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About this edition

The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
  • The library's bookplate on the scanned copy (University of California, Los Angeles) (5 blocks)
  • A speck or stamp on a blank page, read by the OCR as “v^O^ IPqi”
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 4 places
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 2 places
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
  • A speck or stray mark standing alone, read by the OCR as a character (6 blocks)
  • A pencil mark in the margin, read by the OCR as characters (3 blocks)
  • Closing line “THE END”
  • The printer's line (“Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh”)
  • The library's date-due slip, book-card notice, stamps and barcode (18 blocks)