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BOYLE'S EXAMINATION
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affirmative is most certainly true; as it is and shall be proved to be, in all those instances, which this mark [1] refers to.
To depart from the common ways of writing or speaking, and such as have been used by the best pens, on purpose to show oneself more exact and knowing than the rest of the world, is a piece of affectation that savours of pedantry. Tauromenium is the word that is generally used by both ancient and modern writers. Dr Bentley has reformed our spelling, and will have it Taurominium because Pliny and Solinus
- ↑ There was no such thing as Tragedy while he tyrannised at Agrigentum, p. 40
προδεδωκότα never used by the ancients in that sense, p. 52
By that time I have done with 'em it will be no more a controversy whether they are spurious, p. 89
There is no MS above CCC years old that has the Fables according to that copy, p. 146
In all that tract of time not one single author that has given us the least hint that Æsop was ugly, p. 149
Astypalaea, a city in Greece, never mentioned by any geographer, p. 44
A discovery in geography that could not be learnt anywhere else, p. 58
Eustathius, who appears never to have seen the true Athenæus, p. 20.
