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Excerpt from An Essay on the Different Nature of Accent and Quantity: With Their Use and Application in the English, Latin, and Greek Languages
He was nota man from whom any thing accurate was to be expected, novelty being his great object, astruth was his father Gerard's. His charac is well drawn by Dr. Thirlby in Dedi cat. Ad Just. Martyr: Erant in Vossio mullce litera', ingenium mellens, judi ciam etiam, Si non mar-imam, at tantum quantum ei satis superquefuit: qui, nisi omnia mefallunt, quid in quam's re ve rum asset, leviter carcuit perspicere. Sa tis habuit nova, devia, mirabilia, in cri tica, in phllvhia, in theologic quasrere er eacogrtare: rem anne falsa essent, id vero alas erquirendum reliquit, qui sua islhuc interesse erutimarent.
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