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The Book of Quinte Essence or the Fifth Being (1889)
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By Frederick J. Furnivall 27 Nov, 2018
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The odd account of the origin of this Treatise—in its first lines—caught my eye as I was turning over the leaves of the Sloane Manuscript which contains it. I resolved to print it as a specimen of the curious fancies our forefathers believed in ( ... Read more
The odd account of the origin of this Treatise—in its first lines—caught my eye as I was turning over the leaves of the Sloane Manuscript which contains it. I resolved to print it as a specimen of the curious fancies our forefathers believed in (as I suppose) in Natural Science, to go alongside of the equally curious notions they put faith in in matters religious. And this I determined on with no idea of scoffing, or pride in modern wisdom; for I believe that as great fallacies now prevail in both the great branches of knowledge and feeling mentioned, as ever were held by man. Because once held by other men, and specially by older Englishmen, these fancies and notions have, or should have, an interest for all of us; and in this belief, one of them is presented here. Less
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Frederick J. Furnivall
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Frederick James Furnivall was an English philologist. He one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) He founded a number of learned societies on early English Literature, and made...
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