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Excerpt from A Larger Confutation of Bishop Hare's System of Hebrew Metre: In a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Edwards; In Answer to His Latin Epistle
De 8. Poefi Hebraerum, Preel. III. In Libros V. T. Poeticos, p. G.taking of this gkindn I aimed at the very foundation of the whole building; and, I think, I overturned it from the bottom. In the Latin Epii'tle, therefore, which you have don'erme theyhonour publicly to addrefs rto me, I think you had no right to charge me with an artful di?imulation 3 in pa?ingover many of Your arguments in filence. 'i never undertook to anfwer, or to examine, all, or indeed any, of-your arguments. All that I attempted; and profefied to do, was to fap port, again? One Objeetion of your's, What I had written before you ever publifhed a word upon the fubjeet: and even upon this liead the whole of my argumentation 'was Hirected, as before, againft Bitp Hare, and not zigainft You. As for the contradietions, which you have pointed out, between fome pail/ages of the leetures and Ithe confutation as likewife the falfe reprefentations, and difin genuous dealing, with which you have been pleafed to charge me; I {hall fiill keep the fame' filence, though, now you have made the difcovery, it.can no longer be called art.
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