Memoir of Augustine Vincent, Windsor Herald

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1827 Excerpt: ... further and seeing him to grow from vinegar to gall and from gall to venom against so renowned and reverend a man, and the same mixt with pride, arrogancy, and admiration of himself, this began a little to shake my former conceit. He then became he says emboldened, and began to examine his statements by comparing his work with the Britannia, to satisfy himself whether Master Camden were so black as he had painted him or not.f The copy of Vincent's work from which this and the following extracts were taken appears once to have belonged to a friend of Brooke's, for a few M.S. marginal notes are inserted, which from the orthography must have been written about the time of its publication. As they are rather amusing they are here given. Opposite to the words from vinegar to gall and from gall to venom is as thou doest in this booke. t Thou hast seene a splintre in his eye, and not ye bathe in thy own. Ibid. He discovered, he informs us, that if Camden had erred he did so with authority, but that for York he saw no proofs but Pythagorian proof: instead of scripturn est, ipse dixit, no record, no antiquity, but his own antiquity of forty years practice. Besides I noted in him, he adds, not only Animum contradicendi, a spirit of contradiction, but stadium calumniandi, a wilful humour of mistaking, like Hercules, in a play, that made monsters of straw for himself to subdue, judiciously perverting and misconstruing what had a true and a right understanding; and in further process discovered in him by the books I searched a great deal of ignorance and insufficiency. Then I clearly found mine error, Tu ne ille JEneas? Is this M. York? Are these the fruits of forty years study f I Just as thyselfe doest in this booke. Ibid. then damned my opinion and...