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 14 English Reprints. i3- HUGH LATIMER, Ex-Bishop of Worcester. Seven Ser- mons before Edward VI. 1549 - The fyrste [ — seuenth ] Sermon of Mayster Hughe Latimer, whiche he preached before the Kynges Maiestie wythin his graces palayce at West- minster on each Friday in Lent. 1549 - Sir James Mackintosh. Latimer,. . brave, sincere, honest, inflexible, not distin- guished as a writer or a scholar, but exercising his power over men’s minds by a fervid elo- quence flowing from the deep conviction which animated his plain, pithy, and free-spoken Sermons. — History of Eng- land, ii. 291. Ed. 1831. 14 - Sir THOMAS MORE. Translation of Utopia. 1516-1557. A frutefull and pleasaunt worke of the best state of a pablique weale^ and of the new yle called Utopia : Written in Latine by Sir Thomas More Knyght, and trans- lated into Englyshe by Ralph Robynson. Lord Campbell. Since the time of Plato, there had been no composition given to the world which, for imagination, for philosophical discrimina- tion, for a familiarity with the principles of government, for a knowledge of the springs of human action, for a keen ob- servation of men and manners, and for felicity of expression, could be compared to the Utopia. — Lives of the Lord Chancellors {Life of Sir T. More) i. 583, Ed. 1845. In the imaginary country of Utopia, More endeavours to sketch out a State based upon two principles — (1) community of goods, no private property ; and consequently (2) no use for money. i5- GEORGE PUTTEN- HAM, A Gentleman Pensioner to Queen ELIZABETH. The Art of English Poesy. 1589. The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Boohes : The first of Poets and Poesie, the second of Pro- portion, the third ^Ornament. W. Oldys. It contains many pretty observations, examples, characters, and fragments of poetry for those times, now nowhere else to be met with Sir WALTER RALEIGH, liv. EcL 1736. O. Gilchrist. On many accounts one of the most curious and entertaining, and intrinsically one of the most valuable, books of the age of Queen Elizabeth. The copious intermixture of con- temporary anecdote, tradition, manners, opinions, and the numerous specimens of coeval poetry nowhere else preserved, contribute to form a volume of infinite amusement, curios- ity, and value. — Censura Liter aria, i. 339. Ed. 1805. This is still also an import- ant book on Rhetoric and the Figures of Speech.