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
Date:
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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    [ *7 ] more this 'writer wanders from the ar¬ gument, as he does here, the more ge¬ nerally he is out of his depth. Thus it often happens, that thofe who are moll apt to fcribble and write critical re¬ marks upon others, ought rather them- felves to ftudy and read, and digefb what they do read, before they thrufb their crude undigefted notions into the D world. However an author fliould at lead condefcend to be confident with himfelfj and let him ufe what freedoms he plea- fes with his adverfary ; he fliould (in my humble opinion) pay that piece of complaifance to his own character, as not to give himfelf the Lye. Our Cri¬ tic, when he is arguing againd the anti¬ dote of Hippocrates, which A&uarius men¬ tions, urges it as a proof, that it copld not be genuin that it was impoflible Celfus, who copied the works of Hippo- a p. 436. K z crates