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was approved. II. The Epistole Magni Curci, which were ficti- 
tious letters interspersed with historical and geographical sketches. 
III. The Fasciculus Morum, a bundle of breeding, from the cogita- 
tions of Henry Boort: it was printed at Cologne in 1517. IV. 
The Horticulus Synonymorum, a garden of synonymes, “laid out” 
by Henry Faber, and printed at Copenhagen in 1520. V. The 
Vocabulorium ad usum Ducorum ordine literario cum eorum vulgaria 
interpretatione, printed at Paris in 1510. 
Such were the class-books which, in these days, the youth of 
Denmark were obliged to study ; and Wormius* affirms that the 
period of their discipline extended from fifteen to twenty years. At 
the end of this tedious probation, those students who had become old 
in the investigation of scholastic sophistry, they became eligible to 
the priesthood or the magistracy ; but their progress in the Doctri- 
nale entitled them only to recommendation for inferior offices. Ge- 
nerally, the nobles enjoyed greater privileges than the common 
people. The former held the best prebends; and, in order to the” 
obtaining of rich benefices, upon which the eyes of every scholar 
were fixed, the nobles were not required to learn so many hexame- 
ters, nor to penetrate so deeply into the philological mysteries of the 
Labyrinth, nor to distinguish so nicely the ingenious combinations of 
the Synonimical garden. They belonged to the order of Nobility, 
and their rank was nearly equivalent to a bachelor’s degree. In the 
* Olaf Worm deservedly attained the highest distinction, both in Litera- 
ture and Society, as a scholar, an an anatomist, a naturalist, a physician and 
antiquary. He was born in the year MpLxxxviu1, at Aarhuus the episcopal 
city of Jutland: his death took place at the Danish metropolis in mpcrtv, in 
the sixty-seventh year of his age. Having completed an extensive course of 
education at the universities of Giessen, Marburgh, Strasburgh, Bale, Padua 
and Montpellier, he devoted some time to journeys of observation through 
Holland, France and Germany : he made two different visits to England, for 
the sake of improvement ; and, at Bale in mpcx, he obtained the doctorate 
in medicine. In mpcxri1, he returned to his native country ; and, on fixing 
his residence at Copenhagen, he successively discharged the important duties 
of a Professor of Greek, of Natural Philosophy, of Physic, and of Court-phy- 
sician to Christiern IV, his sovereign. The well-merited celebrity of “Olaus 
Wormius,” as his name is latinized, reposes securely on the acknowledged’ 
usefulness of his numerous and elaborate writings. From the results of his 
varied and successful researches in natural history, anatomy and northern 
archzeology, Science derived accessions both of discovery and improvement. 
His Fasti Danici, folio, Hafniz, 1643, and Runica, seu Danica Litteratura an- 
tiquissima ; folio, Hafnize, 1652, affords information regarding the studies of 
youth, in the northern universities, previously to the middle of the seyen- - 
teenth century. 
