'A just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals ci 

 KNOWLEDGES, and their sects ; their inventions, their diverse administra- 

 tions and managings ; their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depres- 

 sions, oblivions, removes ; with the causes and occasions of them, and all 

 other events concerning learning, throughout all ages of the wo'-ld ; I may 

 truly affirm to he wanting. 



" Thu use and end of which work I do not so much design loi curiosity, 

 or satisfaction of those that are the lovers of learning : but chiefly for a 

 more serious and grave purpose ; which is this, in few words that it will 

 make leirned men more wise in the rise and administration of learning." 



BiOON, Advancement of Learning, book ii. 



