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Excerpt from The Covent-Garden Journal, Vol. 2
IT hath been a common Observation, That great Scholars know nothing of the World. The Reason of this is not, as generally it is imagined, that the Greek and Latin Languages have a natural Tendency to vitiate the human Understanding; but in solemn Truth, Gentlemen who obtain an early Acquaint ance with the Manners and Customs of the Antients, are too apt to form their Ideas of their own Times, on the Patterns of Ages which bear not the least Resemblance to them. Hence they have fallen into the greatest Errors and Absurdities; and hence, I suppose, was derived the Observation above mentioned.
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