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ZOILUS'S REMARKS.
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ledge, that whether it be his, or the work of some grammarian, it appears to be writ in his spirit. The open profession of enmity to great geniuses, and the fear of nothing so much as that he may not be able to find faults enough, are such resemblances of his strongest features, that any one might take it for his own production. To give the world a notion of this, I have made a collection of some remarks, which most struck me, during that short time in which I was allowed to peruse the manuscript.