An Answer to a Scandalous Libel, Entitled, the Impertinence and Imposture of Modern Antiquaries Display'd: Or a Refutation of the Reverend Mr. Wise's ... Antiquities in Berkshire (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

George North

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ISBN 10: 1331591228 ISBN 13: 9781331591221

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from An Answer to a Scandalous Libel, Entitled, the Impertinence and Imposture of Modern Antiquaries Display'd: Or a Refutation of the Reverend Mr. Wise's Letter to Dr. Mead, Concerning the White Horse, and Other Antiquities in Berkshire

It is plain this was the Reafon of its Publication; becaufe the Apprehenfion of an imperfeét Copy is urged in the Preface, as on Apology with the learned Gentlemen on the other fide the {qw fiion (thank Heavens they are not all Fools) for the Lz'hertz'es of the Styles. I am forry there is any Man, that ventures into Print, (lands in need of being told, there can be no Apology for: abufive Words and feurrilous Language. If the Subject be ever fo trifling, or ever (0 weakly maintained, yet Civility and Good Manners ought to be ufed in anfwering or refuting, and all per fonal Refleétions ought carefully to be avoided; as what cannot: firengthen an Argument, and never does (0 much hurt (in the eitimation of that Part of the World, whofe Favour and Regard is to be valued) to the Perfon, 011 whom they are cai't as to him that throws them. If the Prefacer had but fufpeé'ted, that the Style of the Letter needed any Apology; the kindeft thing he' could have done would have been to have made it more cleanly' and decent for it is much better to avoid wanting an Apology, than to aim at a bad one; and there can be no room to make one; fora premeditated Offence. As'to Rnfh'tnr himfelf, I fhall only obferve, that 'tis plain he muff be mightily in love with the Fault.

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Excerpt from An Answer to a Scandalous Libel, Entitled, the Impertinence and Imposture of Modern Antiquaries Display'd: Or a Refutation of the Reverend Mr. Wise's Letter to Dr. Mead, Concerning the White Horse, and Other Antiquities in Berkshire Although I neither know Mr. Wise, nor am known to him, yet I cannot, without some Degree of Resentment, see him so scurrilized, for giving his Opinion in the most unexceptionable and agreeable Manner, concerning a remarkable and disputable Work of Antiquity. It is indeed, in a great measure, the common Cause of every Man of Letters: for if every one who offers his Thoughts to the Publick, must meet with such indecent, abusive Usage, we shall soon lose all manner of Improvement and Advantage from each other's Studies and Labours; the Press must soon become unemployed; and the unavoidable Consequence will be, that we shall very soon sink into incurious Indolence and Ignorance. A little friendly Opposition is the Life of Conversation; and to canvass or oppose any publick Performance with Freedom and Decency, is certainly very far from being blameable: since it tends to the same end, as the first Publication, the Information of Mankind, and may hold out a Light to the more fully clearing the Point in question. But when an Author is supposed to be mistaken;to abuse and defame him for it, to load him with all the. indecent scurrilous Language that can be raked together, is the meanest Employ of the splenetick, envious, abject Part of Mankind. To bring in Part of a Gentleman's Character, which can no ways belong to the Question, only to abuse it; to dress up the other Part out of their own ill-natured Imaginations, with Insinuations equally malicious, as false and foreign, is what must always be looked upon, by the good and considerate Part of Mankind, with the utmost Detestation and Abhorrence. Although, as I declared before, I do not know Mr. Wise, yet so much of the Scholar and Gentleman appears throughout his Piece, which is fa

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331591228
• ISBN 13: 9781331591221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 46