A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the University of Oxford

Download or read book A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the University of Oxford written by Alex Chalmers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the University of Oxford: Including the Lives of the Founders An attempt to supply this deficiency is new offered by the Editor of the following pages, who has ever regarded the University of Oxford (with which accident made him very early ao quainted) with sentiments of profound venera; tion, and with a curiosity which insensibly led him to inquire into its history. It was during one of the many visits he has paid to this Uni versity that he first communicated the idea of a history of the Colleges, &c. Which, he conceived, should be more ample than the common Guides afforded, and yet less prefix and confused than the collections of Antony Wood. But whether he has accomplished this intended object in a satisfactory manner, is a. Question which' he would be afraid to ask, without a reliance on the candour (if those who may be acquainted with the state of the sources of which he was to avail himself, and the disadvantages which a person not constantly resident must ever have to encounter in similar attempts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.