Academic Unity

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And, indeed, that this little work is not unworthy of your names, nor unsuited to your offices, nor foreign to your studies, appears on the very face of it; being, as it were, a dish of various sorts of fruits, but exhibiting nothing either of a trifling character, or of an unprofitable tendency. It yields...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And, indeed, that this little work is not unworthy of your names, nor unsuited to your offices, nor foreign to your studies, appears on the very face of it; being, as it were, a dish of various sorts of fruits, but exhibiting nothing either of a trifling character, or of an unprofitable tendency. It yields a strong flavour of antiquity; is now for the first time spread opefor every one's inspection; presents to your eyes the discipline of our ancestors; brings out the arcana of our .University, thoroughly examined, and seriously corrected, as they have been, by learned men; arranged, too, in proper order for every one's use: in short, whatever may be thought of the character of the work itself, and whatever, you yourselves being the judges, of some of the laws and institutions of the University, promulgated therein, still are they to be confirmed and proved by the testimony and authority of these same learned men. That to Cambridge-men, particularly if residing at Cambridge, this book will have its uses; and with respect to others, not residing there, will assist their recollections, ?who will deny ? It calls to mind what is past; it places hi a clear point of view what is present; to those proposing to investigate what is little known it will render aid; to those particularly wishing at any time to investigate the History of Cambridge critically and attentively, it will afford the greatest pleasure and the most solid advantage: for from this spring the whole history of Cambridge is, in fact, derived; which if you pass by with neglect, where will you find any thing better or more sure ? Nay, in passing by that, truth is immediately lost sight of: you would search for mere cisterns; and should you find any, they would be empty or broken, which can hold no water, ?nothing, ...