The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand.

  • Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655
Date:
1657
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Credit: The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    24 de ed =e * Soaps is; E] - “The Epifile ries, of which that of Lovaine feems likeft ours? as much refembline Cambridge, in many re- {pects : not long atrer my return, I was a frefh iniportuned by another friend, to let our Coun- rreymen,underftand the Lite of the:renowned ~Peireskius, Which at laft,though with very much diffdence, I did undertake and accompliíh ; and how-I havetherein acquitted my felf, you are belt able t6 jüdge ; who befides your parts of wit and eatfiing, know by experience the la- bour and care belonging to {uch works, andare bett qualified to excule an over-fieht or miftake, You know that Ga(fendws a general Scholar, and one ofthe grearelt wits in Europe, and a períe& Mafier of rhe! Roman Language, comparable toany ofthe ancients, could not have taken in band an Argument, that would have more effe- tually called forth; and employed the utmolt ofall his A Aivities, than to writeghe Lre of chis rare French Gentleman, whofe {prightful curio- firy left nothing unfearcht into, inthe vaft and all-comprehending’ Dominions of Nature and Art. | | Having finifhed the Story, I: was long in Queft co whom I might peranenty dedicate the fame, being apparelled, 4 la mode d' Angle terre: Bb gpm pits Xeon 3 and pertinency I have alwaie$ elteemed the Soul of aDedication. While this care was upon me, itwas my good hap, accidentally to over-hear the Chara&er of your worthy felt, foexpreffed in a Book-fellers (hop in Cornhil, where I was then reading, that T concluded, you were che on- ty man Tever heard of in England, whofe Peires- kian Uertues , did challenge this Dedication. | s Hen ME