A Reply to the Calumnies and Misrepresentations of Professor T. H. Key (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Reply to the Calumnies and Misrepresentations of Professor T. H. Key Mr. T. H. Key, a philologer whose merits, so far as they have been known to me, I have always most willingly acknowledged, has reprinted, with certain additions, a number of articles which, it seems, he contributed to the Penny Cyclopoedia. In a prefatory letter, which he has addressed to my friend Mr. Long, he indulges in a violent tirade against a book called Varronianus, which I had published about a fortnight before the date of his letter. But he is not satisfied with vilification. He has the presumption to maintain that I am indebted to him, though I have not acknowledged my obligations, for all the little good which he can find in Varronianus. This is an assertion the truth of which I feci myself bound to controvert. Censure and criticism may be left to themselves, but distinct accusations, however frivolous, eager, and inconsiderate, must be met by exposure and confutation. Mr. Key's attack is directed chiefly against the 7th and 10th chapters of Varronianus, of which (he says, in p. 12) I have "borrowed a great part from the productions of one English writer, " namely, himself, and the chapters referred to are severally accused in pp. 2 and 6. Before I proceed to examine this calumny in detail, I must beg leave to make a few remarks on the manner in which scholars in general have thought themselves entitled to use the labours of their predecessors and contemporaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.