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Excerpt from Quarrels of Authors, or Some Memoirs for Our Literary History, Including Specimens of Controversy to the Reign of Elizabeth, Vol. 1 of 2
I observed, that Notes hdd not then been dis covered. Had herd clarendon known their use, he had preserved the unity of design in his text. His Lordship has unskilfully filled it with all that historical furniture his diligence had collected, and with those minute discussions his anxiety for truth, and his lawyer-like mode of scrutinizing into facts and substantiating evidence, had induced him. Had these been cast into Notes, and were it now possible to pass them over in the present text, how would the-story Of the noble historian clear up! The greatness of his genius will ap pear when disencumbered of its unwieldy and misplaced accompaniments.
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