22.) Let him, therefore, who will charge detraction upon me, first understand wherein it consists.

I shall criticise, freely, both the works of the living, and the doctrines of those who, to us, live only in their works; and if any man dislike this freedom, let him rebuke it, showing wherein it is wrong or unfair.

The amiable author just quoted, says again: "Praise has so often proved an _impostor_, that it would be well, wherever we meet with it, to treat it as a vagrant."-- _Ib._, p.100.I go not so far as this; but that eulogy which one knows to be false, he cannot but reckon impertinent.
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Few writers on grammar have been more noted than WILLIAM LILY and LINDLEY MURRAY.

Others have left better monuments of their learning and talents, but none perhaps have had greater success and fame.