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Excerpt from The Life of Sir Thomas Pope, Founder of Trinity College Oxford: Chiefly Compiled From Original Evidences; With an Appendix of Papers, Never Before Printed
Thefe inconveniencies might have eafily been prevented. But our anceftors had no regard for futurity. They trufted the te membrances of their heroes to chance and tradition or rather, to the laborious in veftigation of a difizant pofterity. For it is the talk of modern times to commemorate, if they cannot imitate, the confpicuous ex amples of antiquity and to compofe the panegyric of thofe virtues which exift no more. Inquifitive leifure is not the lot of earlier eras. Ages of action are fucceeded by ages of enquiry.
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