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. 1804 Excerpt: ...Latin rhymed translation, might have well been inserted here: it is excellently done, and the effect, singular as it is, very pleasing. The moral Cower, and philosophical Strode, form the subjects of the next examination. Of Strode little can be known, and nothing added to what is known, till his works shall have been ...
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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. 1804 Excerpt: ...Latin rhymed translation, might have well been inserted here: it is excellently done, and the effect, singular as it is, very pleasing. The moral Cower, and philosophical Strode, form the subjects of the next examination. Of Strode little can be known, and nothing added to what is known, till his works shall have been examined, which we hare Cud, according to Tanner, were (at least in part) print' ed at Venice, with the comments of Alexander Sermoneta, in 1517. Gown's manuscripts are among the many treasures wliich, to the shame of England, will be suffered to moulder away. Mr. Godwin now discusses the question whether Chaucer belonged to the Society of the Inner Temple, and concludes by saying that much stress cannot be laid upon the supposition. But tho' the discussion is thus concluded, we must not suppose that the biographer concludes the subject also-No! he has told us that there is little or no reason to believe that Chaucer did study the law; but suppose he had studied the law, what " effect would have been produced upon his mind by this study!" Then comes the history of law in the fourteenth century, as far as Mr. Godwin understand it; and having spent ten pages upon this, he takes up the supposition on which he had before assured us no stress was to be laid, in order to try the effect of this study upon poor Chancer, whose mind Mr. Godwin chusesto submit to as many experiments as we have seen inflicted upon a tuljecl, by Messrs. Pegge and West, at Oxford. ' Chaucer is supposed to have been btci to the bar. If he practised in the profession, for however short a time, he must hare contracted some habits of thinking and acting peculiarly appropriated tolheinanoflaw. ll lie never entered upon actual practice, ?et having had the profession in p...
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