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A vindication of An essay concerning critical and curious learning in which are contained some short reflections on the controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton, and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyle : in an answer to an Oxford pamphlet / by the author of that essay.
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Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.
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Man of never such high Birth to have done in the Contentions of Wit and Argument where all must be allowed to be equal Secondly I deny that I have insolently abused the Reverend and Worthy Dr. Aldrich 'T is true I have taken Notice of his Smoaking and Pâ—nning but they are two very â—ociable Qualites and he has no Reason to be angry at me for it He is not the only Clergy-man that takes Tobacco nor the only Academick that puns I must confess he is a Punner of the first Rate For the Town has been often obliged to him for good Catches whiâ—h are the highest flights of that kind of Wit But this is not all I have called him a Proud Man and abused his Logick As to his Pride I will say no more than what I hav already done for my Design is not to brand his Reputation in so Tender a part And as to his Compendium of Logick I am sorry I men tioned it for to decide whether there be any thing new in it but the Language and whether that Language is better for being labour'd and full of Elegant Phrases or not is a Question that concerns only the Fresh Men in the Universities and I will now assign it over to them and heartily ask their Pardon for invading their Province before Thirdly and Lastly I deny that I have ignorantly undervalued the ingenious Answer to Dr. Bentley and the Christ-Church accurate Editions of Old Authors But I will not here so much as recite any of those particular Witticisms and Passages which displeased me when I perused this ingenious Celebrated Book because I hear Dr. Bentley's Vindication is in the Press and I am resolved not to interfere with him It is sufficient for my present purpose that it appears at first View to any Reader to be done by several Hands The Style and Matter is almost in every other Page of a different Complexion One while you have something that looks a little Modest and Grave and the Quotations managed to the best advantage Preâ—ently the Humour changes and there is nothing to be met with but Buffoonery and Unmannerly Jests with nothing in them But it is Dr. Bentley's business not mine to detect and apply all their Errors I have already exceeded the Limits of a Letter and must hasten to the next thing I must account for my speaking ill of their Editions of Old Authors which says my Friend are Famous not only here at home but are much approved by Forreigners abroad If â—his was true what is the Meaning of the present Dispute with Dr. Bentley But they are so far from being Books of any standing Value amongst other People that they themselves are not long pleased with them For many Authors that were Published in Dr. Fell's Time have been again Revised Collated Printed Index'd c. in Dr. Aldrich's and for any thing I know may undergoe the same Fate in the next Dean's too As for the late Edition of Aesop's Fâ—bles I am told Dr. Bentley has Examined it very particularly and proved it to be of the number of those that neither deserve a good Reputation at home nor abroad So that the same Reason which made me conceal my Observations on their English Book will oblige me to be silent here too unless I would make my self a Party in the Quarrel which I do not design to do for all I am Dr. Bentley's dear Friend and Acquaintance Here Sir I thought to have released you for I was in hopes all had been pretty well over But his Wit is inexhaustible There is nothing so barren which he cannot be fruitful and copious upon Who else could have applied the Tale of the Dutch Commentators and Horace's Mother to two Epigrams Any other Man would have told me bluntly that if I had not been certain of what I said I should have forborn my idle Conjectures But to return him one ill Jest for another I assure him the Father of the Two Epigrams is not altogether so much unknown to me as it seems Horace's Mother was to the Dutch-Commentators and I did not only guess when I laid them at a Doctor 's Door The Pretence of the Author 's not being accountable for the abuses in them because they were Printed without his Knowledge is ridiculous and of a Piece with the rest of his Arguments They were not I hope Composed Transcribed and Dispersed without his Knowledge which had they not been harmless inoffensive things would have made them as much Libels as the Printing of them Indeed it is an unfair Practice to betray a Man into Print The Collectors of the Examen c. should not have inserted them without leave had they been never so Excellent much lâ—ss when they hardly deserved a place in their Book But one may guess by it with Submission to the conjecturing Dutch Commentators that they were no great Friends to Dr. Bentley neither any more than the Author and I some times 〈◊〉 that we are secretly obliged to Christ-Church it self for that Miscellany notwithstanding this Gentleman for some private Reasons publickly disclaims it But whencesoever it came if it has given you any Divertisement in your Solitude I have had my Desire and there is an End of it There is yet another Paragraph behind and so it is like to remain For besides that it has nothing in it but Your humble Servant Sir I begin to blush almost as much for Examining as the Author ought to do for writing this Pragmatical Rhapsody Give me leave Sir to call it what I think I have fairly proved it to be tho' if I am not wrong informed it was the Production of one that never doubted his own Sufficience and Abilities in all kinds of Poliâ—e Learning SIR I am Yours c. T. R. London Aug. 23. 1698. FINIS BOOKS Printed for Richard Cumberland at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard HOrological Disquisitions concerning the Nature of Time and the Reasons why all Days from Noon to Noon are not alike twenty four Hours long In which appears the impossibility of a Clock's being always kept exactly true to the Sun with Tables of Equation and newer and better Rules than any yet extant how thereby precisely to adjust Royal Pendulums and keep them afterwards as near as possible to the apparent Time With a Table of Pendulums shewing the Beats that any Length makes in an hour A Work very necessary for all that would understand the true way of rightly managing Clocks and Watches By John Smith C. M. The Mystery of the Christian Faith and of The Blesseâ—l Trinity vindicated and The Divinity of Christ proved In Three Sermons Preach'd at Westminster-Abbey upon Trinity-Suaday June the 7th and September 21. 1696. With a Letter in Vindication of them By the late Reverend William Payne D. D. A Scriptural Catechism Or The Whole Duty of Man laid down in Express Words of Scripture chiefly intended for the Benefit of the younger Sort. Divided into two Parts The first containing the chief Principles of our Christian Belief The Second instructing us in our Duty to God and Man according to the Method observed in the Excellent Book Entituled The Whole Duty of Man To which is added Some Private Devotions in express Words of Scripture With devout Collects for several Occasions Recommended by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman Church With the Prayers Hymns and Lessons themselves taken out of their Authentick Books The Third Edition With an Appendix concerning the Miracles and Reliques of the Church of Rome By â—ohn Patrick D. D. Late Preacher of the Charter-house London Two Books of Elegies In Imitation of the Two First Books of Ovid de Tristibus with part of the Third To which is added Verses upon several Occasions with some Translations out of the Latin and Greek Poets By Thomas Ball M. A. of St. â—ohn's Colledge in Cambrdge Monitio Logica Or An Abstract and Translation of Burgersdicius his Logick By a Gentleman A Treatise of Prayer and Thanksgiving With Devotions for the Morning and Evening the Sacrament Sickness and oOccasions By â— C. To which is added a Sermon on Psalm 73. 28. By the late Reverend B. Whitchcott D. D. And also his Character of the Best Christians A Practical Essay concerning Friendly Reproof By Daniel Sturmy late Student of Catharine-Hall Cambridge An Essay concerning Critical aâ—d Curious Learning In which â—e contained some short Reflections on the Controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyl By T. R. Esq