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there was no Need of the Best; and the others might do a great deal of Hurt, by infecting the Children at once with their own Blunders and Dulness.
Excepting those of some very learned Men, Comments are generally an Art of making Authors difficult, under a Pretence of explaining them. And it hath been the hard Fortune of the best Writers to be perplexed with Notes, and obscured by Illustrations.[errata 1] The Abilities of the Teacher will best supply the Defects of the Commentator, and it will be a Pleasure to young Gentlemen, as he leads them along, to see from him the Geography, Anti-
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