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# Title: [Lectiones XVIII, Cantabrigiae in Scholis publicis habitae] Lectiones XVIII, Cantabrigiæ in Scholis publicis habitæ (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 0; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 0)
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EPROTOLM ad L F C TORF, NI.
BoHSBNL LFCTOR3
nime tibi destinatum hoc quicquid est opella–
atim ipse, modo dieneris inspicere, multis ab
ndiciis deprehendes; nec tamen ut juris id
i fieret, defuernnt auctores. quibus tandem.
nimo certe trepidans, atque renitens, idcirco
praesertim obsequutus sum, quoniam in hoc, quod ipse primus
obierim, munus succossuris exemplo praeire rem literariam:
si minus effectu, saltem conatu promovendi, non inhonesta
nec ab efficio meo aliena videbatur ambitio. accessit tennis spes
inesse bonae frueis non- nihil, quod ex aliquatenus tibi prosit
nec omnino displiceat. Mlemineris autem obtestor qui in his
literis provectior es, quale scriptum attrectas; non utique
tibi soli elaboratum; non sponte productum; non diuturna
meditatione subactos exhibens feriantis ingenii conceptus; at
Lectiones Scholacticas; primum officii necessitate expressas;
tum subinde properantius efsusas, ut absolveretur pensum, ac
hora deflueret; demum ad promiseni literarii populi instructin
onem comparatas, cnjus intererat complura (qualia tibi vide-
buntur) leviora non praetermitti; ut frustra futurus s (id
quod te monitum oportuit, ne multum expect ando tibi pariter
obsis, ac mihi) accuratum hic quicquam, affabre positum, aut
concinne dicestum sperans. Enimvero, quo tibi satisface-
rem, expediret scio multa detruncare, meliora substituere
pleraque transponere, omnia ad incudem limamque revocare;
quae tamen adniti, nec stomachi mei, nec otii fuit: sed nec
facultatis exequi. in puris itaque naturalibus (quod ainnt)
e prentnata sunt emittere malui; quam operose lambendo
aliam informam, nec ipsam placituram refincere. quinimo
postquam edendi propositum inii, seu fastidio correptus seu no-
vandi subiturum sudium fucitans, ne quidem horum mae-
nam partem relecere sustinui; verum, quod tenella matres
facti-