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XXVII. 



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An account of some Greek Manuscripts^ procured at Constantinople 



in 1819j, and now belonging to the Library of the XJmversity at 



Cambridge. 



BY EDWARD EVERETT, 



EIIOT PROTESSOR OF GREEK LITERATURE IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY 



any object more engages the 



of the 



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for classical manuscript 



and the 



valuable disco veries^ that are still made, serve—notwithstanding 



the deg 



which 



libraries throughout 



country 



been ransacked — to keep the hop 



scholar awake 



It 



known that perhap 



most valuabl 



pt of Plato 



which we possess, was brought from the island of Patmos by Dr. 

 Clarke, a few years ago. We may excuse the severity with which 

 those Greeks, who feel for the literary degradation of their native 



•y, speak of the removal of such manuscripts from the 

 and schools in Greece, where they are still preserved. 



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But 



of course be doubted that the cause of literature at larg 



authorizes the European traveller to avail himself of the ignoi 

 and insensibility of the Greek priests and monks, and to 



duce 



those manuscripts which 



ly become generally 



their present places of deposit, and 



be collated and made known 



them to sell 



useful, by being taken fi 

 brought to regions, where they 

 to the world.* 



- • Koray expresses himself with severity on this subject, in the prolegomena 



X*^ 



to lus secood book of Homer. He 



to the removal of the 



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