Terrae-filius: or, the secret history of the University of Oxford: in several essays To which are added, remarks upon a late book, entitled, Universityeducation, by R Newton, In two vs The second ed: to which is prefix'd v 2 of 2
Terrae-filius: or, the secret history of the University of Oxford: in several essays To which are added, remarks upon a late book, entitled, Universityeducation, by R Newton, In two vs The second ed: to which is prefix'd v 2 of 2
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. 1726 Excerpt: ...is easy enough to guess; but the artifice is so thin and ridiculous, that no body, I think, carr be deceived by if. It cannot however be an improper time to produce some of my proofs against the persons with whom I have enter'd the lists; from whence it may appear, whether I who relate, or my bookseller who publishes, ...
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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. 1726 Excerpt: ...is easy enough to guess; but the artifice is so thin and ridiculous, that no body, I think, carr be deceived by if. It cannot however be an improper time to produce some of my proofs against the persons with whom I have enter'd the lists; from whence it may appear, whether I who relate, or my bookseller who publishes, or they who act such enormities against this government, ought to be under apprehensions from this government.-If, for once, I may be judge in my own case, to be punished by Whigs and Tories too for the same thing, is, I think, a little too hard usage; 'tis such fore-stroke and bacitstroke play, as I cannot possibly understand. One of my principal evidences is a sermon preach'd May 19, i7i9, which I promis'd to giveanaccount of, when a proper opportunity offer'd itself: accordingly, I will begin with it next Wednesday. In the mean time, I will present my reader with some little peccadillos, which may serve for collateral proofs, E 3 or or corroborations of my main charge: the first of which shall be an epistle from a gentleman m orders to a certain Head of a college, in which he stood candidate for a fellowship, and carried it. 2tf. B. It was written just after the late duke of Ormohd went away. Vir colendislime, 7N bac tarla rerum perturbatione, me pergrata Ben--ti reficit memoria; spero equidem dum Ecclefiae patronos carcertbus insequuntur malevoli, ut mihi ejufdem miniftro, faiore tuo, asylum pr&beat Alfrcdi domus. Prob Curia, inversique mores! Orbitatem fr.am rtuncfen/rt Ecclesia, fides defensore fro viduata luget, & nocte religioni obducta, ex luftris cavernisque fris repunt fanatici tenebriones, atque adversus academiam primo fra tela Iterant: tamen fi cujuslibet-vigilantid sacra Ut er arum causa, defendi potuit, certi tud defens...
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