Philip Melanchthon

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. From these I acquired a vocabulary and style, but we boys had no instruction in composition We read every thing without discrimination, but especially did we pre fer modern works like those of Politian. My style took its complexion from these, and reproduced these harsher and less polished authors rather than the grace and beauty of the ancients.