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Excerpt A Et Collectanea.
EXCERPT A ET COLLECTANEA .
• HJ £ C SPARSA COEGI . LIBERTY Of THE PRESS . THE late-King of Prussia , being asked one day , vVhy he permitted so ' many libels to be printed against him ., said , ' Myself and my subjects are come to a composition : I do as I please , and they write as they please . "
GUNPOWDER .
¦ Gunpowder , or , at least , a powder that had the same effect , seems to have been known to the famous Roger Bacon , a Franciscan monk , of . the thirteenth century , and was perhaps invented by him : for in a letter to John of Paris he says , .- " In omnem distantiam quam vplumus , possumus artificialiter componere ignem comburentemex Sale Petri et aliisviz . Sulhureet Carbonum Pulvere .
Pra-, , p , ter banc ( scilicet combustionem ) sunt alia stupenda , nam soni velut tonitus et corruscationes fieri possunt in aere , immo majore horrore qiiam ilia qua : fiunt per " naturam . " " By our skill we can compose an artificial fire , burning to any distance we please , made from Salt Petre and other things , as Sulphur and Charcoal Powder . Besides this power of ; combustion , it possesses thunder and
other wonderful" properties : for sounds , like those of corruscations , can be made in the air , more horrid than those occasioned by nature . " '¦ ... .
DESTRUCTION OF LEARNING
The destruction of the Ptolomcean library by OMAR is well known . The books it contained served to heat the baths of Alexandria for seven months . This was the ravage of an infidel—of an avowed enemy to Christianity and learning ; but it has sometimes happened that the rage of Christians themselves has been equally fatal . Mr . Gibbon , in his Decline and Fall , says , that the Franks , when they sacked Conmonuments
stantinople in the eleventh century , destroyed so many of learning and ar . s , that Mahomet IV . found few to destroy . JOHN BALE ( in his Epistle upon Leland's Journal ) gives us a shocking account of the destruction of books and MSS ; at the abolition of relig ious houses by Henry VIII . " If there hadbeen in shire of England but one solemn
li-. every brary for the preservation of those inoble works , and preferment of good learning in our posterity , it had-been somewhat ; but to destroy ail without consideration , is and will be unto England , for ever , a most ' horrible infamy amongst the grave scholars of otherv nations . They whog dtandpurchased the Relig ious Houses at the Dissolution of
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Excerpt A Et Collectanea.
EXCERPT A ET COLLECTANEA .
• HJ £ C SPARSA COEGI . LIBERTY Of THE PRESS . THE late-King of Prussia , being asked one day , vVhy he permitted so ' many libels to be printed against him ., said , ' Myself and my subjects are come to a composition : I do as I please , and they write as they please . "
GUNPOWDER .
¦ Gunpowder , or , at least , a powder that had the same effect , seems to have been known to the famous Roger Bacon , a Franciscan monk , of . the thirteenth century , and was perhaps invented by him : for in a letter to John of Paris he says , .- " In omnem distantiam quam vplumus , possumus artificialiter componere ignem comburentemex Sale Petri et aliisviz . Sulhureet Carbonum Pulvere .
Pra-, , p , ter banc ( scilicet combustionem ) sunt alia stupenda , nam soni velut tonitus et corruscationes fieri possunt in aere , immo majore horrore qiiam ilia qua : fiunt per " naturam . " " By our skill we can compose an artificial fire , burning to any distance we please , made from Salt Petre and other things , as Sulphur and Charcoal Powder . Besides this power of ; combustion , it possesses thunder and
other wonderful" properties : for sounds , like those of corruscations , can be made in the air , more horrid than those occasioned by nature . " '¦ ... .
DESTRUCTION OF LEARNING
The destruction of the Ptolomcean library by OMAR is well known . The books it contained served to heat the baths of Alexandria for seven months . This was the ravage of an infidel—of an avowed enemy to Christianity and learning ; but it has sometimes happened that the rage of Christians themselves has been equally fatal . Mr . Gibbon , in his Decline and Fall , says , that the Franks , when they sacked Conmonuments
stantinople in the eleventh century , destroyed so many of learning and ar . s , that Mahomet IV . found few to destroy . JOHN BALE ( in his Epistle upon Leland's Journal ) gives us a shocking account of the destruction of books and MSS ; at the abolition of relig ious houses by Henry VIII . " If there hadbeen in shire of England but one solemn
li-. every brary for the preservation of those inoble works , and preferment of good learning in our posterity , it had-been somewhat ; but to destroy ail without consideration , is and will be unto England , for ever , a most ' horrible infamy amongst the grave scholars of otherv nations . They whog dtandpurchased the Relig ious Houses at the Dissolution of