Having at his command wide and rich domains of literature, he took toll of them for his service, but did not levy nominal tributes for ostentation. Very little really extraneous ornament is to be found in his writings. And yet nothing ever came from his hand that was not visibly the work of an accomplished scholar.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Having at his command wide and rich domains of literature, he took toll of them for his service, but did not levy nominal tributes for ostentation. Very little really extraneous ornament is to be found in his writings. And yet nothing ever came from his hand that was not visibly the work of an accomplished scholar." in the context of "Frederick Pollock, Oxford Lectures and Other Discourses (1890), p. 150" to mean that wisdom is timeless.