An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories: contrived, in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published, out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux Mr of Arts and sometime fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.
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- An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories: contrived, in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published, out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux Mr of Arts and sometime fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.
- Author
- Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?
- Publication
- Oxford :: Printed [by Leonard Lichfield] for Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Vniversity,
- M.DC.XLVIII. [1648]
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- Subject terms
- World history -- Early works to 1800.
- Church history -- Early works to 1800.
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"An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories: contrived, in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published, out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux Mr of Arts and sometime fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91005.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2025.
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TO THE READER.
EXpect no more here (good Rea∣der) then the Title promiseth, that is, an Introduction, not to rest on as satisfied, but to lead thee on to larger Volumnes. The number of seaven is here used, not out of affectation, but experience, as most easy for Memory, which is the prime scope of this Compendi∣um, to touch at that which may seeme most remarkable, and so to dispose it, that it may be best remembred. The whole consisteth
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of three Tracts, The first of History Ecclesia∣sticall, Deduced from the Creation of the World to these our times. The Second that is Politicall, ascends no higher then Nimrod (for those Anti-Diluvian Dynasties mentio∣ned by some, must be held only Imaginary) and is continued in the like line downe∣ward. Whence the History of Successions begins: with an Instance given in the Successive Governments of our own Country. Whereunto a short appendix is added, con∣cerning the History of Professions, as also Na∣turall, Ʋarious, and Ʋaine stories, poynting only at the heads they may be drawn unto: and in Generall, what is to be thought of them, and so an end.
Some are of the mind, that such an Indu∣ction may not only prove a Directory to a be∣ginner, but a Remembrancer to those that have forgotten much they have read, and will take it well to be Prompted at the chea∣pest rate. * 1.1 In the like case it was the resoluti∣on of a Writer of our own, Mihi debetur col∣lectionis gratia, tibi habeas electionis materiam, Of what I have collected you may take your
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choyce, passe by some or leave all. My con∣clusion is that of the Poet,
—si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti, si non his utere mecum. * 1.2 If you have found a righter way Impart it if you please, If not take this then for a stay, And use it at your ease.
Notes
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* 1.1
Malmsbur. de Gestis Reg. Angl. l. 5.
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* 1.2
Horat