This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...Jr Arrowinith (like himself, as already noted, a Durham man), a volume of Essays, after the manner of Bacon, entitled Home 'icirte--"--? 'faint breathings, ' as he describes them, 'of a minde burthened with other literary employments.' 'Let them. Sir, ' he says, 'receive the honour and shelter of your name, since Imme ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...Jr Arrowinith (like himself, as already noted, a Durham man), a volume of Essays, after the manner of Bacon, entitled Home 'icirte--"--? 'faint breathings, ' as he describes them, 'of a minde burthened with other literary employments.' 'Let them. Sir, ' he says, 'receive the honour and shelter of your name, since Imme under your government and eherisht by your candour.' The in the university. John Pawson wrote an Address to thc,"' Reader, ' in which, while testifying to his pupil's attainments in French, Spanish and Italian literature, he also expressed his conviction that the Essays wen-throughout original work and that the author had ' nowhere streteh'd his own meaning to make way for another's fancy.' Henry More, the Platotiist, contributed some complimentary elegiacs, Thomas Stanley, already known as the generous patron of struggling authors, who had recently graduated: is a fellow-commoner from Pembroke, and of whose achievements in the fields of philosophy and scholarship we shall hen-after have frequent occasion to take note, together with his uncle. William 1 Home I'ud'r.ic, or Kiy. Somf ccttirMl Cm$itltntitm: 1616. I'.'rao. Hap, iv.. Hammond, sent like contributions in English. So too, did Thomas Goodwin, fellow of St John's, and James Shirley. Altogether there rose up a chorus of commendation, destined, however, soon to evoke in turn, what Pawson, anxious to defend his pupil, subsequently described as a crowd of nn turms 'ignorant detractors'; while Hall himself, elated by success, now assumed the part of a satirist and turned upon his assailants. That the Essays were of genuine merit cannot, indeed, be gainsaid; they attained to considerable popularity and were translated into French; and, in the language of th...
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Add this copy of The University of Cambridge Volume 3 to cart. $70.00, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2015 by Arkose Press.
