Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various
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[Our valued correspondent, MR. MACCABE, has also informed us that the "_Epigrams_ of Frusius were published at Antwerp, 1582, in 8vo., and at Cologne, 1641, in 12mo. See Feller's _Biographie_."] [1] I presume in his _Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu_. [2] Duthilloeul, according to Mr. Bruce, says 251. * * * * * OPINIONS RESPECTING BURNET A small _catena patrum_ has been given respecting Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp. 40, 41., to which two more _scriptorum judicia_ have been appended in No. 8. p. 120., by "I.H.M.". As a sadly disparaging opinion had been quoted, at p. 40., from Lord Dartmouth, I hope you will allow the following remarks on the testimony of that nobleman to appear in your columns:-- "No person has contradicted Burnet more frequently, or with more asperity, than Dartmouth. Yet Dartmouth wrote, 'I do not think he designedly published anything he believed to be false.' At a later period, Dartmouth, provoked by some remarks on himself in the second volume of the Bishop's history, retracted this praise; but to such a retraction little importance can be attached. Even Swift has the |
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