Remarks And Collections Of Thomas Hearne Volume 1

Author : Thomas Hearne
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ISBN 13 : 9781331937012
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. 1 written by Thomas Hearne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. 1: Suum Ruique, July 4, 1705 March 19, 1707 It is built a tardy act of reparation to a scholar who was meglected during life, and has been imperfectly appreciated in the century and a half which has elasped since his death, for an Oxford Historical Society to select as one of its earliest issues a portion of the writings of Thomas Hearne. We should have to go very far back, and to come down to our own day, in order to find many names worthy to be placed beside his on the roll of Oxford alumni who have done distinguished service to the cause of historical research. To supersede those numerous editions of the sources of English history which Hearne gave to the world in a too brief lifetime of fifty-seven years, the resources of the Treasury, with a large staff of learned specialists at its disposal, have been employed for a generation past. Hearne's Remarks and CoUeciionSy of which the first instalment is now before us, contain fragments of the materials of which he afterwards made such excellent use, beside memoranda on any subject that attracted his attention at the moment It may be readily conceded that the words of Bentley - surely as magnificent a eulogy as was ever pronounced on one scholar by another - are not in their full sense applicable to our antiquary: -The very dust of his writings is gold. But we certainly claim that with the dust very much gold is mingled That delightful book Reliquiae Hearnianae, originally printed in a small edition by Dr. Philip Bliss (Oxford, a vols. 8 vo., 1857), and afterwards published with additional matter in 3 vols. (London, 1869), hardly professes to contain more than a series of illustrative selections. It may safely be said that until these Diaries of Hearne's (to give them a title which he himself rejected), together with his extensive Correspondence, are rendered accessible to students in a more complete form than hitherto, the history of the Nonjurors, and that of the Universities in the earlier portion of the eighteenth century, cannot be finally written. And if it be objected that the history of the Nonjurors is of purely antiquarian interest, we need only point to the numerous questions concerning the relations between the ecclesiastical and civil power which agitate mens minds at the present day, and which Sancroft and Kettle well, Dodwell and Hickes, Collier and Ken, had thought out and illustrated with various learning, nearly two centuries ago. 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.