Volume 1

Philological inquiries in three parts.

  • Harris, James.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Philological inquiries in three parts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To thefe alfo we may add the Authors Ch.IIL upon Grammar in which fubje<St the ^ ' '' learned Greeks^ when they quitted the Eaft, led the way, Mofchopulusy Chryfo- lor as ^ La/car is ^ Theodore Gaza ; then in Italy^ haurentius Valla \ in Engla?id, Gro cin and Linacer\ in Spain, SanBius^\ in the Low Countries VoJJius; in France, Ccefar Scaliger by his refidence, tho' by birth an Italian^ together with thofe able * Sanctius, towards the end of the Sixteenth Century, was ProfelTor of Rhetoric, and of the Greek Tongue, in the Univerfity of Salamanca. He wrote many works, but his moft celebrated is that, which bears the name of San^ii Minerva, feu de Caufis Lin- gua Latina. This invaluable Book (to which the Author of thefe Treatifes readily owns himfelf in- debted for his frji rational Ideas of Grammar and ' Language) was publiflied by at Salamanca in the Year 1587. Its fuperior merit foon made it known thro' Europe, and caufed it to pafs thro' many Editions in different places. The mofl common Edi- tion is a large o£tavo printed at Amfterdam in the year 1733, and illuftrated with Notes by the learned Perim C 3 Writers »