Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...is a virtuous and commendable proceeding. Such mottoes form a rather curious collection. The ungodly borroweth and payeth not again That is terse, neat, and to the point; therefore, let it stand first in our list. Earliest in antiquity, but neither neat nor terse, is the worthy Andreas Hedio, who speaks for himself in his own doggrel about 1650 A.d.--Andreas Hedio Philosophic in Academia Regiomontana (Konigsberg) Professor. Publ. Ordinar. Electoralium Alumnorum Collegii et Convictorii Inspector Primarius. (Arms of Hedio, being the head and shoulders of an old bearded man in a fish-tailed night-cap. Tinctures unmarked.) Below is written--the professor's book being supposed thus to poeticise: --'Me sibijure suuvi Dominus, propriumqueparavit; Usum concessit sponte cuicumque (?) bono. Sed tu, si bonus es, Domino me reddito, grattis, Si retines, malus es, nee bonus usus erit.' The mild professor lives again in these feeble numbers. We do not think the boarders (convictores) of the Konigsberg Academy can have held him much in awe. This next example is extremely quaint. The Wessofontanum Ccenobium (Wessenbrunn) was a Benedictine monastery in the Diocese of Freysingen in Bavaria, founded as early as 753 A.d. An undated (XVth century?) German Chronicle bears for imprint, impressa in Canobio Wessofontano? This is the convent book-plate. Design--a Pontiff seated, enthroned, wearing the triple crown and holding a long pastoral staff. An escutcheon rests beside him charged with the crossed keys. Behind, a curtain and a column. Signed I. E. BEllING Cath. Sc. A.V. Then come these two limping Hexameters, in which the borrowed monastery volume prologizes--1 Ex-libris of Sherlock Willis, dated 1756 (C.) Thomas Pownall (1760) gives the same text with..
