A catalogue of the ... library ... of ... Richard Gough ... : Which will be sold ... on ... April 5, 1810 / [Richard Gough].

  • Richard Gough
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[1810]
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Credit: A catalogue of the ... library ... of ... Richard Gough ... : Which will be sold ... on ... April 5, 1810 / [Richard Gough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    having once incorporated their observations in his va- rious ]>ubliGations, he guarded their correspondence - from the impertinence of modern Editors. Of his own Notes, written in Printed Books, he had made the Britis^h Museum the depositary*; though, like others of his friends, he never attained to the honour of being one of the Trustees; wliich, he has heard it observed, should be the blue ribband of literarif men, and is now become an object of success- ful canvass. So unambitious was he of public honours, that, as he took no degree at Cambridge, and that University confers no honorary ones, he resisted the solicitations of many members of the Sister University, and-of his old and valuable friend Dr. Pegge, to share his honours with him in 1791 ; though he felt real satisfaction in assisting at them, and retained to the last a grateful sense of the good wishes of that learned Seminary. In Politicks, he was, as his Father had been be- fore him, a linn friend to the House of Brunswick, and a stranger to the mutability of his contemporaries. That independence which he gloried in possessing as his inheritance, and which he. maintained by a due attention to his income, discovered itself in his o]ji- nions and his attachments. As he could not hastily form connexions, he mavseem to have indulged strong aversions. But he could not accommodate himself to modern manners and opinions; and he had resources within himself, to inake it less needful to seek them Jlev, Dr. Farmer, Master of Emanuel College. Sir John Fenn, Editor of the Paston Letters, Rev. John Guteh, Registrar of ’Oxford, Rev, Mr. Ledwich, of Ireland. Rev. Dr. Milles, Dean of L^eter, \ Craven Ord, Esq. Rev. Dr. Samuel Pegge, and his son Samuel Pegge, Esq, Rev. John Price, of the Bodleian Library. Robert Riddell, Esq. of Friar’ s Carse. Rev, Rogers Ruding, Vicar of Maldon, Surrey. J. C, Walker, Esq. of Dublin.” * This depositary he altered, by his last will, to the Bodleian Library. The next sentence, with the subsequent paragraph, may, in some degree, account for the change. C