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. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... QUEEN'S. ERASMUS. FULLERV SIMON OCKLEY. SIR F. WALSINGHAM. BISHOP PATRICK. DEAN MILNER. CAIUS. HARVEY (Disc, Of Cte. Op Blood.) JEREMY TAYLOR. JEREMIAH COLLIER. SHADWELL. LORD THURLOW. DR. SAMUEL CLARKE. SIR THOMAS GRESHAM. VINCE. DR. WOLLASTON. DENNIS. FENN. CLARE. PARKHURST (hebraist). TILLOTSON, WHISTON. DODD. BISHOP BURNETT. BISHOP MOORE. WHITEHEAD (poet). DR. PARR BENE'T. EARL OF HARDWICKE. STUKELEY. ARCHBISHOP PARKER. BELOE. CATHERINE. BISHOP HOADLEY. STRYPE. TRINITY HALL. LORD CHESTERFIELD. BISHOP GARDINER. SIDNEY. TWINING. SETH WARD. MAY (poet). MARTYN. MAGDALENE. WARING. CUMBERLAND. HAY. Many others of the illustrious dead might be adduced to swell the list, such as, CHAUCER. BUTLER. DEMPSTER. BRATHWAYTE. DEVEREUX. DONNE. FANSHAWE. POMFRET. HARRINGTON. LILLY. TOUP. LATIMER. Having thu& delivered myself of the advice I had to bestow, more particularly upon parents and other directors of the education of youth, and pointed out the eligibilities of the several colleges, I proceed to narrate such other experiences as may be useful or entertaining. It has already been notified, that, on my return to Cambridge, after a considerable absence, I again betook myself to studies both classical and scientific, with the view of preparing for a Fellowship. These occupations, together with pupillizing, engrossed all the hours I had to spare, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, and pretty much beyond. that period indeed, for some months after I had snugly nestled again within the comfortable and secluded retreat of the Bishop's Hostel. Besides a vigorous and steady perusal of the higher mathematics, and the more abstruse philosophy, I bothered myself somewhat with metaphysics, with morals, politics, and so on. But the...
