Download or read book Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by John Leland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, Vol. 5 Sed opera pretium ell cognofcere, qua arte fidem hifloriz fua adflruat. Priurn firenue debacchatur in Galfredum, ut cjus autoritatern elevet, 8c fua vaniflima vanitati pondus, ro bur, veritarem etiam accumulet. Deinde, que'm tot favis verbis ante lancinaverat, cogitur homo impudentiflimus per bonam antiquioris hifloria partem fequi. At huic impudenria venia certe danda el't, quia alium, quem reé'te fequeretur, au torem prorfus nullum habuit. Qhe adco tamen fui imme mor non fuit, quin obiter in ducem fuum, tanquam fatuum 8c mendacem, multo fale, ut ell mire argutus, lepidus, face tus, luderet. Atque hoc non alio ab eo nomine faftum, quam ne ullo approbare modo videatur, quem prius ia feétatus efl. Fieri hie potefi, ut aliquis mihi Obliat, Codrum non elf: primurn, qui Galfredum fugillavit, 8: alios extarc fcriptores, quorum autoritate in primis bifioria fua libris non raro nfua efi. Ad hac ego breviter in prafentia refpondebo, Gulielmi Parvi, canonici Novoburgenfis, verba minoris effe pretu, quam ut in confutandis illis libenter velim laborare. Fuit ille etanim digniflimus, quicumcodrum conferas, maximein cogui tione antiquitatis Britannica. Porro, quantum ad Romanos, qui de rebus nofiris modo breviter, modo concife, modo pa rum vere (cripferunt, nemo ex illis aliquid faltem memoria dignurn de Britannia, quod ego fciam, ante Cafarem edidit. Et omnia qua Gafar fcripfit, quantumcunque illins diéiis Codrus tribuat, mihi non videntur é tripode profe&a, quem admodum neque alia multa, qua pofiea a Latinis autoribus de Britannus pofieritati tradita funt. 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.