Epistle about Jo. Antiochensis was desired by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Lichfield; my Notes on Callimachus by Mr Graevius; and my Dissertation upon Phalaris, by Mr Wotton. The only book that I have writ upon my own account, is this present answer to Mr B.'s objections: and I assure him I set no great price upon't; the errors that it refutes are so many, so gross and palpable, that I shall never be very proud of the victory.
But then, a man that over-rates the price of his performances, acts the very reverse of this: he engages in matters where he has no concern; he obtrudes his notions upon the world, though neither his friends desire him nor the business oblige him to meddle. And is not this the picture of the Examiner? He has writ a large book in behalf of Phalaris's Epistles, which has hitherto been the public diversion, and will be so too hereafter, but in a different way; and yet he professes that he was not in the least concerned to vindicate them.
5. "But an assuming and positive way of delivering one's self, upon points, especially, that are not capable of being perfectly cleared, is pedantry." Now to take
