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PREFACE.

us he had borrowed them himself, except that 1 never
aouglit to put them forth as my own discoveries, I was not
assailed and insulted by him. I now proceed in the
same way, with all possible brevity, through tho second
volume of his book; merely premising, us a help to those
who would have aomo clue to thin perpetual and strange
desire to represent as from oral or written communication
facts derived from printed sources, that Mr. Prior took
occasion in the course of his attack upon mo expressly to
lay clown tho doctrine, that what has boon printed for any
given number of can no longer bo held new, or

regarded in the light of a discovery; and as, in his
own cKtetmi, ho in nothing if not a diHcoverer, and by
conaut|ttene-c it proprietor, of facts, there ought to be little
|H*rhapH to Hurpriw tin*, render in tlw foregoing and follow-
ing

At pp, l-ll of ihf second vciluitio then* is a viwt deal
about (iold*utrith'M Oratorio of the f ^fn///i>i///» nbotit ilw fitnt
of two <n*pie« luung still ritaiit in hi* handwriting, itnd iihcmt
Mr, Prior bring eiwbkd to print for the lirat time "frtnn that
" which RpjK?nr« tlw mtwt rorrwt Irfiiwrript \ *' tlu* ri'tuliT
bring ktfpt tjuite igiumuit that nlrendy thU JHKMU imd IMVII
printed, from it rupy tu (loldHiiufh¹* hnml\>riting at the*
leant iss cnriuttH ax Mr. PriDrV, imd ei-rtninly m wirnxst
(the *n»* hitvitig lireu tiiiidr fur Ntwbery, tilid tin- other
fur Dudhley, nntl tbf lalrht in frittwrripfimi prr«^siitmg tmly
a few rlmugeM uf text fnuii the «»ihrn, ill the <H*tnvu ttditutn
wf tin* Minrr//tti)tt»itx ll'tiffa pulili^lit'd by ilw Umdon
¹¹ *' ii



	PREFACE. us he had borrowed them himself, except that 1 never aouglit to put them forth as my own discoveries, I was not assailed and insulted by him. I now proceed in the same way, with all possible brevity, through tho second volume of his book; merely premising, us a help to those who would have aomo clue to thin perpetual and strange desire to represent as from oral or written communication facts derived from printed sources, that Mr. Prior took occasion in the course of his attack upon mo expressly to lay clown tho doctrine, that what has boon printed for any given number of can no longer bo held new, or regarded in the light of a discovery; and as, in his own cKtetmi, ho in nothing if not a diHcoverer, and by conaut\|ttene-c it proprietor, of facts, there ought to be little \|HrhapH to Hurpriw tin, render in tlw foregoing and follow- ing

	At pp, l-ll of ihf second vciluitio then* is a viwt deal about (ioldutrith'M Oratorio of the f ^fn///i>i///» nbotit ilw* fitnt of two <npie« luung still ritaiit in hi handwriting, itnd iihcmt Mr, Prior bring eiwbkd to print for the lirat time "frtnn that " which RpjK?nr« tlw mtwt rorrwt Irfiiwrript \ ' tlu ri'tuliT bring ktfpt tjuite igiumuit that nlrendy thU JHKMU imd IMVII printed, from it rupy tu (loldHiiufh¹* hnml\>riting at the* leant iss cnriuttH ax Mr. PriDrV, imd ei-rtninly m wirnxst (the n» hitvitig lireu tiiiidr fur Ntwbery, tilid tin- other fur Dudhley, nntl tbf lalrht in frittwrripfimi prr«^siitmg tmly a few rlmugeM uf text fnuii the «»ihrn, ill the <Htnvu ttditutn wf tin Minrr//tti)tt»itx ll'tiffa pulili^lit'd by ilw Umdon ¹¹ *' ii