Excerpt from History of Ancient Manuscripts: A Lecture Delivered in the Hall of the Inner Temple Benedictine Monk, who wilhed to defcribe in an allegory, the journey of St. Peter to Rome. It is, indeed, difficult to believe that this was not a literary joke but the Abb??? feems to have been thoroughly in earnef'c, and if (0, it appears not to have firuck him that there is fach a thing as internal evidence and moral impo ibility. The idea of mediaeval monks being able to compofe the works of Homer and of Plato; of Cicero ...
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Excerpt from History of Ancient Manuscripts: A Lecture Delivered in the Hall of the Inner Temple Benedictine Monk, who wilhed to defcribe in an allegory, the journey of St. Peter to Rome. It is, indeed, difficult to believe that this was not a literary joke but the Abb??? feems to have been thoroughly in earnef'c, and if (0, it appears not to have firuck him that there is fach a thing as internal evidence and moral impo ibility. The idea of mediaeval monks being able to compofe the works of Homer and of Plato; of Cicero and of Virgil does not deferve repeti tion. We lhall, by-and-by, fee how in reality it was that long after the revival of letters many of the ancient manufcripts, containing the writings of the cla ics, were recovered or re f'cored but it muf'c be borne in mind that even thofe ancient documents are not the originals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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