History of the University of Dublin, (Founded by Queen Elizabeth)

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Excerpt from History of the University of Dublin, (Founded by Queen Elizabeth): Its Origin, Progress, and Present Condition, With Biographical Notices of Many Eminent Men Educated Therein, Illustrated by Views of Its Buildings, and the Academic Costumes, Etc, , This Venerable Seat of LearningTm, ensuing Work is intended to embrace all the topics of interest connected with the university or dublin. It will contain, besides an account of the Foundation, and a narrative of the circumstances of its earlier History, Biographical Sketches of the Pre lates and other eminent men whom it has educated, with a detail of the regular Succession of Provosts and Fellows, and Notices of Benefactions from the earliest period to the present time. It will be also illustrated with coloured Engravings of the Academic Costumes and Vignette Views from Drawings made on the spot, in which the Architecture and Scenery of the College are accurately represented, and the scale, as well as the mechanical appearance of the work, ap preaches that of Dyer's Cambridge, except that this is comprised in one volume. The Author takes this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging the kind attention of those Members of the University who have facilitated his inquiries, and enabled him to col lect the requisite materials for so arduous and respons ible an undertaking, and in committing the result of his labours to the public opinion, he trusts it will be found that the work has been impartially designed, and executed with fidelity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.