Of the books printed in the last thirty years of the eighteenth century one of the most ambitious was Thomas Kipling's facsimile edition, in two folio volumes, of the _Codex Bezae_ (1793), "the very crown of the Cambridge Press." Kipling was the leader of the prosecution of William Freind, author of _Peace and Union recommended to the associated bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans_ (2nd ed. 1793), and refused to allow Gilbert Wakefield's _Silva Critica_ to be printed at the Press on account of the author's unorthodoxy[122]. Gray's _Commemoration Ode_, set to music by Dr Randal, was printed in 1769[123]; Samuel Ogden's _Sermons on the Efficacy of Prayer and Intercession_ (Boswell's favourite reading during his tour to the Hebrides) were published in 1770 and were followed by other volumes of sermons in 1777; the Parker MSS were catalogued by James Nasmith and published in 1777, the Baker collection by Robert Masters in 1784; Thomas Martyn, Professor of Botany, published a _Catalogus Horti Botanici_ in 1771 and _Elements of Natural History_ in 1775; the second edition of John Wesley's _Duty and Advantage of early rising_ was printed in 1785 and the changing spirit of the age is reflected in a sermon of 1788 entitled _Slavery inconsistent with the Spirit of Christianity_ and a _Sermon on Duelling_, by Thomas Jones (1792). The beginnings of the study of modern languages in Cambridge are seen in La Butte's _French Grammar_ (2nd ed. 1790) and in various editions of Tasso and other Italian authors by Agostino Isola, a teacher who, at different times, could reckon Thomas Gray, William Pitt, and William Wordsworth among his pupils[124]. _Ten Minutes' Advice to Freshmen_ by A Questionist, printed by Archdeacon for J. Deighton in 1785, deserves a few lines of quotation: It is not reckoned fashionable to go to _St Mary's_ on a Sunday.--But I know no harm in going, nor that it is any reproach to a man's understanding to be seen publickly in the same place with the most dignified and respectable persons of the University.--To say nothing about the regularity of the thing, and its being approved of by people whose good opinion you may be desirous to obtain. It is neither my business nor my inclination to prose to you upon the usefulness of Mathematical learning--it is sufficient that it has its uses.... Of the standard of mathematical printing at this period a circumstantial complaint is preserved by Nichols in a letter from William Ludlam, author of _Rudiments of Mathematics_ (2nd ed. 1787) and other works[125]: