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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52671	Instructions concerning erecting of a library presented to my lord, the President De Mesme / by Gabriel Naudeus ... ; and now interpreted by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire.; Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque. English	Naudé, Gabriel, 1600-1653.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1661 (1661)	Wing N247; ESTC R8116	43,800	113

INSTRUCTIONS Concerning Erecting of a LIBRARY Presented to My LORD The PRESIDENT De MESME BY GABRIEL NAUDEUS P. And now Interpreted BY JO. EVELYN Esquire LONDON Printed for G. Bedle and T. Collins at the Middle-Temple Gate and I. Crook in St. Pauls Church-yard 1661. To the Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON Viscount CORNBERY Baron HYDE of HYNDON Lord High Chancellour of England Chancellour of the Vniversity of Oxford and one of the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council MY LORD I have had so great a thirst to testifie to your Lordship and to publish to the World the extraordinary Zeal which I have for your service that pretending to so little merit of my own and yet having so many obligations upon me I am to be excus'd if in making use of anothers Labours to accomplish my design I take occasion by this Dedication to declare to the world how immense your favours are and how prone I am to acknowledge them to the utmost of my Talents And perhaps it will be more acceptable to your Lordship that I express this rather by putting an excellent Authour into your hands of which I pretend onely to have been the Interpreter than whilst that learned person discourses so well of excellent Books to have multiplied the number of the ill-ones by some production of my own I have made choice my Lord of this Argument to present to your Honour because I esteem it the most apposite and the most becoming as it has an aspect to your Lordships noblest Character which is to be as well L. Chancellour of the most famous University of the World as L. High Chancellour of England and because I think worthily to preside over Men of Letters is a greater dignity than to be born to the name of Empire so as what was said of the great Themistius in the Epigramm may with equal truth be applied to your Lordship in all the glorious steps which you have ascended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That you were never less than now you are especially since your Lordships Titles are not so much the product of your Fortune as the effect of your Merits verifying by your universal knowledge the Rank you hold over the Learned Republique as well as over the Political which is in summ to be the greatest and most accompplish'd Minister that this Nation has ever celebrated But in nothing does this appear more conspicuous and for which your Lordship has greater cause to rejoice in then that God has enlightn'd your great Mind with a fervour so much becoming it in the promoting and encouraging of the ROYAL SOCIETY which is in one word to have dared a nobler thing than has been done these fifty Ages and more that the Knowledge of Causes and the Nature of Things have layn concealed from us and that the World has continu'd without once having assum'd the Courage and Resolution which our Illustrious Prince and your Lordship have shewed in establishing and cultivating a Design so worthy and perfective of Humane Felicity as far at least as in this life men may hope to attain it My Lord This is your Honour and this is truely to fix and to merit it For let men talk what they please of the Laurells of Conquerours the Titles of great men illustrious and ample Posterity all the pleasures of the lower senses how exalted soever by the effects of Opulence and Fortune which make indeed a great noise and stir for the time and whilst the World is in the Paroxysme bear much before them dazling the eyes of the Vulgar and flattering the weaker discernements They arrive not to the least perceptible degree of that Dignity and true honour which a man may raise to himself by noble and virtuous Actions Because there is nothing solid in them they last but for a moment in their using languish and expire He that would lay a Foundation of true and permanent Honour that would place it beyond the reach of Envy must qualifie it with something more noble and intellectual and which is not obnoxious to the common vicissitudes because by whatever circumstances such a worthy Design may happen to be discompos'd it will nevertheless be celebrated as long as Virtue shall have an Advocate here and when the World shall become so deprav'd that there is nothing sincere remaining in it God himself will remunerate it hereafter If the Soveraignes and Puissances of the Earth having sated themselves with their Triumphs over Men and Provinces enlarged their Dominions and establish'd their estates would one day think as our glorious Prince has begun to them of extending and amplifying the Bounds and Empire of real Philosophy in pursuite of those Magnalia Naturae to the glory and contemplation of the Maker and the universal benefit of Mankind how happy would such Princes be how fortunate their People And truely this has made me frequently to consider wherein the felicity of that great Monarch consisted whose heart was so enlarged with knowledge improv'd to the good of his Subjects where silver was as the stones of the streets for abundance and the conveniences of life so generally affluent Certainly it is by such a Design as our own Solomon and your Lordship is about to favour that even We may hope for those glorious times again and by which the publique health may be confirm'd our Lives produced knowledge and conversation improv'd and joy and contentedness become as universal as the Air which gives us breath For my Lord what can be more glorious and worthy a Prince to which God himself has said Dixi Dii estis I have said ye are Gods then by this means to aid and to comfort Mankind which is environ'd with such variety of Miseries And to emancipate and redeem the rest who by the utmost of their endeavours aspire to more happiness to be freed from the Pressures Errours and infinite Mistakes which they fall into for want of Experiences and competent subsidiaries to essay them But to accomplish this my Lord There is certainly nothing more expedient than in pursuite of that stupendious Idea of your Illustrious Predecessor to set upon a Design no way beneath that of his Solomons House which however lofty and to appearance Romantic has yet in it nothing of Impossible to be effected not onely considering it as Himself has somewhere defin'd the Qualifications but as your Lordship has design'd the Instruments and may in time the Materials as all the World must needs acknowledge that shall but cast an eye over the Catalogue of such as have already devoted themselves Because but for the mistake which they made in honouring me with their suffrages I should not blush to pronounce the Royal-Society furnish'd with an Assembly as accomplish'd for that noble and great Attempt as Europe or the whole World besides has any to produce And that my Lord because it does not consist of a Company of Pedants and superficial persons but of Gentlemen and Refined Spirits that are