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So you can speak and write Latin, not barbarously; I never require great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford, qui dum verba sectantur, res ipsas negligunt. My toyful books I will send with GOD's help by February ; at which time you shall have your money. If the estates of England remain, you shall not fail of it. Use it to your best profit!

For language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. Animadverte, says Hobbes, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominihus prolabi in errores circa ipsas res! Egregie vero J. C. Scaliger, in Lib.

Luke xxiii. 28: "Filiae Jerusalem, nolite flere super Me, sed super vos ipsas flete." St. Matt. xxvii. 32: "Hunc angariaverunt ut tolleret crucem Ejus." St. John x. 20: "Daemonium habet et insanit: quid Eum auditis?" Sap. v. 4: "Nos insensati vitam illorum aestimabamus insaniam." 18th Oct. 1562.

The admirable remarks on the true use of the study of history, such as 'I never require great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford, qui dum verba sectantur, res ipsas negligunt, remind us of the author of the Defence; while the 'great part of my comfort is in you, 'be careful of yourself, and I shall never have cares, and the 'I write this to you as one that for myself have given over the delight in the world, show that he had estimated royal reconciliations at their true value, and anticipate the beautiful and pathetic words with which he is said to have taken leave of the world.