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Excerpt from Oratio De Arte Interpretendi Grammatices Et Critices Fundamentis Innixa Primario Philologi Officio
Lent, nunc apud horum plerosque iacere coepe rint ac prope dixerim contemni. Saepissime quum peregre abessem cum eruditis Italis vel aliis quibus dem, quos discendi amor aut fortuna eodem addu x'erat, de studiorum ratione sermones conferens non sine moerore et indignatione sensi quam alte ista labes animos multorum insederit. Non aeque omnium me movebat auctoritas. Multorum le vitatem nil praeter sua admirantium facile erat contemnere. Erant qui nullius disciplinae guar� et de omnibus tamen suaviter ad imperitos au ditores disserere soliti eundem morem alio trans ferrent et quae ipsi nesoirent, ab aliis soiri posse aut disci debere negarent. Sed supererant alii acuti sane homines et ingeniosi quales Italia quamquami tristi olim servitute 0ppressa et quod etiam peiu3 est gravi veterno torpens complures proferre non desiit, qui avitam patriae gloriam, literarum antiquarum studia, vilipenderent tam quam rem minutam et exilem, nec satis dignam summorum virorum persona, a quibus sua cuius que patria maiorem humanitatem felicitatemque merito exspectaret. Elegantium hominum ca studia diotitaliant esse, otio aflluentium: vitam humanam nunc graviora postulare ac severiora: 0ptandum esse illud quidem, ut qui in maioribus excel. 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.