PRIVILEGES

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

TOGETHER WITH

Additional Observations

ON ITS

HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, LITERATURE, AND

BIOGRAPHY.

BY GEORGE DYER,

AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

London:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW; PAYNE AND
FOSS, PALL MALL; HUNTER, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD;
DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; AND PARKER, OXFORD.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

DISSERTATIO Generalis, sive Epistola Literaria Viris Aca-

demicis, præcipue Cantabrigiæ commorantibus, humil-

lime oblata......

Supplement to the History of the University and Colleges of

Cambridge, containing-

Additions and Corrections to Vol. I. (after Dissertatio

Generalis)

...

Additions and Corrections to Vol. II.

PAGE

iii

............1-15

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PAGE

....115-117

Appendix

Mr. Ashby's Plan for Cambridge Improvements......117-130

Supplement the second to the History of the University

and Colleges of Cambridge, Vol. 1, containing, amidst

other miscellaneous Articles, many additional Observa-

tions on the Literature of Cambridge, ancient and mo-

dern

131-232

..

240-254

.254-260
1-36

History of the University-Press (after Jesus College)..

Cambridge Fragments, consisting of Historical Observa-

tions, Biographical Sketches, Remarks on the Cambridge

Libraries, on curious Books, and Manuscripts in them,

Literary Anecdotes, Poetical Pieces, and other miscella-

neous Articles connected with the History and Antiqui-

ties of Cambridge (after History of the University-Press) 1-200

List of my Publications and Writings, at the conclusion of
the Volume.

Address to the Subscribers to the Privileges, &c., now

subjoined, but printed and circulated before its publica-

tion.

DISSERTATIO GENERALIS,

SIVE

EPISTOLA LITERARIA,

VIRIS ACADEMICIS,

PRÆSERTIM AD CANTABRIGIAM COMMORANTIBUS,

HUMILLIME OBLATA.

RES ab antiquis petitæ quasdam proprietates sibi vindicant; nec earum gravitati convenit, hodiernis contaminari disciplinis; nempe Dedicationibus, ut vocantur, quæ simul adulationibus solent tumescere, lucrique spe sæpius insolescunt. Præterea, nec præsens argumentum talia patitur, nec ipsa occasio requirit. Compellat vos non clarus cujusdam operis Conditor, vel unus e Cyclicorum numero, sed Editor tantum: nec vos estis tales, qui verborum blandițiis irretiri velitis, vel, quasi visco, capi possitis.

Sint Rhetoricæ sua privilegia;-verbis aures allicere, figurarum fulgore percellere, simulque principes et magnates dulcisonis orationibus morari. Sua habeat etiam Dialectica ;-subtiliorum usu distinctionum se circumvallare, artificiosos syllogismos e longinquo petere; victoriæque potius quam veritatis avida, sophistarum apud Platonem more, τον ήττω λογον τον μείζω ποιειν. Sint etiam sua Poesi; -deliciis abundare, fabulis luxuriari, et admiratio