Excerpta Antiqua

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Excerpt from Excerpta Antiqua: Or, a Collection of Original Manuscripts As it will not admit of doubt, so it naturally suggests itself to the gentle Reader, that History, is in a great measure .indebted to the sedulous and diligent researches of the Antiquary, forks basis and support, at a time therefore when the taste and study of Ancient Literature and Antiquity is so much inculcated, that few Manuscripts are permitted to remain in an obsolete Hate, and when Collectanea of this fort are in request or fought after with avidity, the Editor of the following Miscellany lays it down as a duty incumbent on him, to communicate these fugitive fragments, which by chance or observation have fallen in his way, and he concludes with the old adage, Scire tuum nihil eft nifi tefcire hocfciat alter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.