This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...that they might have been called a Life. I fear I have displeased him; if I have, I desire I may know so much, that I may ask his pardon. As for the Diary of Archbishop Matthew, upon my second reading of it, I find it may be contracted into a very few useful and exemplary observations, which will be as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...that they might have been called a Life. I fear I have displeased him; if I have, I desire I may know so much, that I may ask his pardon. As for the Diary of Archbishop Matthew, upon my second reading of it, I find it may be contracted into a very few useful and exemplary observations, which will be as a mirror to show the man, and with the addition of what is said by Wood, Fuller, &c. may increase our Biology; and therefore beg of you that it may lie by me a little, and so I shall send back your book safely, with those additaments of respect and honour to his memory which I am able to collect and make. His, and his wife's epitaphs, are the epitomes of the whole. As for your papers, I am not able to censure that of antiquities, in which sort of learning I am nobody. For the Life of your father, it is a most exemplary and curious thing; it may be, there are some things of economical concernment, which the world will not care for. A thing that often comes into my mind in reading and writing Lives, and particularly in that of Mr. Rayner's; how are men concerned, thought I, to know, in so large a narrative, how much Norwich and Lincoln strove for him? with many other things of the like importance. I must also plainly and friendly tell you, that as I am exceedingly pleased with that Life, so not so well satisfied with the poetry, or sermon of your worthy friend. It were to be wished that nothing that is ordinary slip out of our pens into the public: then you'll say, I must write nothing; I grant it, and can well lay it aside. However, mine being only used for transcribing, (as all historical things must be transcripts, not inventions, ) I shall go on with my collections, hoping they may fall into the hands of some judicious disposer; and one or..
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