A letter to Dr. ------- in answer to a tract in the Bibliotheque ancienne & moderne [by J. le Clerc], relating to some passages in Dr. Freind's History of physick / [John Baillie].

  • Baillie, John
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1727
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Credit: A letter to Dr. ------- in answer to a tract in the Bibliotheque ancienne & moderne [by J. le Clerc], relating to some passages in Dr. Freind's History of physick / [John Baillie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lows the inaccuracy of the Plan. The other thing alledged, was, that it is like- • wife erroneous. This neither does the • * * r • Annotator d deny ; for he acknowleges the errors, Mr. le Clerc has made, in the ages of Oribajius, Aetius, Alexander and Taulus. Tho’ he here again endeavours to flur it over with an excufe, which, in my opinion, rather aggravates, than mends the matter e: He follow’d Mo¬ reau as his voucher. Surely nothing can be a greater objection, againfl a writer, who pretends to give the hifto- ry of an author or his works, than that inftead of carefully fearching into the original works themfelves, he fupinely contents himfelf with other men’s ac¬ counts of them. And indeed this is the realbn, that the fame errors (in all kinds of writing) are fb vaftly propa¬ gated : few are original writers, mod copies j and hence an error once crept i Art. 2, p. 397. C z in.