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Sketches Of Celebrated Characters.
he wrote a Latin , a Greek , and an Italian Grammar . He makes great complaints of the ignorance of his times , and says , the Regular Priests studied chiefly scholastic divinity , ancl that the Secular Priests applied themselves to the study of the Roman law , but never turned , their thoughts to philosophy . The learned Dr . Friend , in his history of Physic , very deservedly calls this extraordinary man " the miracle the
' of the age in which he lived ; ' and says that he was greatest mechanical genius that had appeared since the days of Archimedes . Roger Bacon , in a Treatise upon Optical Glasses , describes the Camera Obscura , with all sorts of g lasses that magnify or diminish any object , bring it nearer to the . eye , and remove it farther ; . and Dr . Friend says , that the telescope was plainly known to him . ' Some instrumentsadds that learned
' of these , and his other mathematical , ' Writer , ' cost 20 ol . 01-3001 . ' and Bacon says himself , that in twenty years he spent 2000 I . in books and in tools ; a prodig ious sum for such sort of expences in his day . . _ ¦ -. Bacon was almost the only Astronomer of his age : for he took notice of an error in the Calender with respect to the aberration of the
solar year ; and proposed to his patron , Clement the Fourth , a plan for correcting it in 1267 , which was adopted three hundred years after by Gregory XIII . Bacon was a chymist , and wrote upon medicine . There is still in print a work of his " , on retarding the advances of old age , and on preserving the faculties clear and entire to the remotest period of life ; and
with a littleness unworthy of so great a mind as his was , he says , ' that he does notchuse to express himself so clearly as he might have . ' done respecting diet and medicines , lest what he writes should fall ' into the hands of the Infidels . "
CARDINAL WOLSEY .
It is said in the Preface to a Grammar written by Mr . Haynes , the schoolmaster of Christ-Church , that Cardinal Wolsey made the Accidence before Lily ' s Grammar . '' The Cardinal was a short lusty man , ' says Aubrey , ' not unlike ' Martin Luther , as appears by the paintings that remain of him . ' A great writer observes , that few ever fell from so hig h a situation with it must be
less crimes objected to him than Cardinal Wolsey ; yet remembered , that he gave a precedent to his rapacious Sovereign of Seizing on the wealth of the Monasteries , which , however , the Cardinal might well apply ( supposing that injustice can ever be sanctified by its consequences ) by bestowing it on the erection of seminaries of learning ; yet that wealth , in the hands of Henry , became the means , of profusion and oppression ; and corrupted and subjugated that country , which it ought to hare improved and protected ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Sketches Of Celebrated Characters.
he wrote a Latin , a Greek , and an Italian Grammar . He makes great complaints of the ignorance of his times , and says , the Regular Priests studied chiefly scholastic divinity , ancl that the Secular Priests applied themselves to the study of the Roman law , but never turned , their thoughts to philosophy . The learned Dr . Friend , in his history of Physic , very deservedly calls this extraordinary man " the miracle the
' of the age in which he lived ; ' and says that he was greatest mechanical genius that had appeared since the days of Archimedes . Roger Bacon , in a Treatise upon Optical Glasses , describes the Camera Obscura , with all sorts of g lasses that magnify or diminish any object , bring it nearer to the . eye , and remove it farther ; . and Dr . Friend says , that the telescope was plainly known to him . ' Some instrumentsadds that learned
' of these , and his other mathematical , ' Writer , ' cost 20 ol . 01-3001 . ' and Bacon says himself , that in twenty years he spent 2000 I . in books and in tools ; a prodig ious sum for such sort of expences in his day . . _ ¦ -. Bacon was almost the only Astronomer of his age : for he took notice of an error in the Calender with respect to the aberration of the
solar year ; and proposed to his patron , Clement the Fourth , a plan for correcting it in 1267 , which was adopted three hundred years after by Gregory XIII . Bacon was a chymist , and wrote upon medicine . There is still in print a work of his " , on retarding the advances of old age , and on preserving the faculties clear and entire to the remotest period of life ; and
with a littleness unworthy of so great a mind as his was , he says , ' that he does notchuse to express himself so clearly as he might have . ' done respecting diet and medicines , lest what he writes should fall ' into the hands of the Infidels . "
CARDINAL WOLSEY .
It is said in the Preface to a Grammar written by Mr . Haynes , the schoolmaster of Christ-Church , that Cardinal Wolsey made the Accidence before Lily ' s Grammar . '' The Cardinal was a short lusty man , ' says Aubrey , ' not unlike ' Martin Luther , as appears by the paintings that remain of him . ' A great writer observes , that few ever fell from so hig h a situation with it must be
less crimes objected to him than Cardinal Wolsey ; yet remembered , that he gave a precedent to his rapacious Sovereign of Seizing on the wealth of the Monasteries , which , however , the Cardinal might well apply ( supposing that injustice can ever be sanctified by its consequences ) by bestowing it on the erection of seminaries of learning ; yet that wealth , in the hands of Henry , became the means , of profusion and oppression ; and corrupted and subjugated that country , which it ought to hare improved and protected ,