PREFACE. I HAVE often, during my residence in Cambridge, regretted that many very facetious and richly-spiced anecdotes, and smart sayings, should only be handed round the University by tradition; and not only are they entirely lost to the world, but many-I believe I may add, a very great number-of the members of the University are almost ignorant of their existence. Hence I resolved to compile the Facetiae Cantabrigienses ; And I trust I shall be, if not commended, at least pardoned, for so doing. The eye of the reader will sometimes come in contact with an anecdote which is already familiar to him: this he will perhaps forgive; as my aim is, not only to make him acquainted with strangers, but also to collect the lost sheep, which are to be found scattered up and down, in various publications, and, like the Jews, have no particular resting-place. Being myself a mortal enemy to long prefaces, I shall make my bow by observing-that most men are occasionally troubled with ennui, or, as it is sometimes denominated "THE BLUE DEVILS;" and I know of no better remedy for such maladies, than that afforded by a perusal of the FACETIOUS. Page Absence of Mind ............................. 88 Catching Cold A Blunder Bad Language ..... ............. ........ 15 36 PageTM 104 ...... 70 Dr. John Hey 67 Dr. S.Clarke versus the Regius 45 Elegant Complimeut ........ .39, 154, 155 7 Epigram by Porson...... 58 82 ... ....... Long-winded Sermon .......... ...... Page 52 145 Novel Payment of a Debt.... 132 Novel Reception of a Creditor 125 94 90 71 72 Paley's Conception of the Cha- 131 Paley's Sketch of his early Aca- 121 Pigeon-Shooting 11 Porson or the Devil.......... 4 Porson's Politics ......................... 16 ....... .155, 158, 161 .......... ...... ......... 70, 76, 149 ........ ........ 148 Saying of Lord Bacon 114 Settling a Point of Precedence 122 Simplicity of Mathematicians 107 46 |
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