Excerpt from Philip Melanchthon: The Protestant Preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 From these I acquired a vocabulary and style, but we boys had no instruction in composition We read every thing without discrimination, but especially did we pre fer modern works like those of Politian. My style took its complexion from these, and reproduced these harsher and less polished authors rather than the grace and beauty of the ancients. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...
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Excerpt from Philip Melanchthon: The Protestant Preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 From these I acquired a vocabulary and style, but we boys had no instruction in composition We read every thing without discrimination, but especially did we pre fer modern works like those of Politian. My style took its complexion from these, and reproduced these harsher and less polished authors rather than the grace and beauty of the ancients. 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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