. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . as men buy leases, for threelives and downward, there ought no regard to be sooner had thanto Gods glory, by the honour and instruction of my country. Forwhich cause, and not only for that I knew it would be hard toarrive at the second rank among the Latins, I applied myself tothat resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions ofBembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the advancingof my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end—thatwere a toilsome
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . as men buy leases, for threelives and downward, there ought no regard to be sooner had thanto Gods glory, by the honour and instruction of my country. Forwhich cause, and not only for that I knew it would be hard toarrive at the second rank among the Latins, I applied myself tothat resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions ofBembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the advancingof my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end—thatwere a toilsome vanity—but to be an interpreter and relater of thebest and safest things among mine own citizens throughout thisisland in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicestwits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of olddid for their country, I in my proportion, with this over and above,of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be oncenamed abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that, but contentwith these British islands as my world, whose fortune hath hitherto.
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