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 as much as their Disputes in Religion would give them Leave. Though this seemed to sink by degrees, yet that afterwards Critical Skill in Antiquity was valued and pursued by our learned Men, will not be questioned by those who consider that Sir Henry Savile, Mr. Cambden, Archbishop Usher, Mr. Selden, Sir John Marsham, Mr. Gataker (not to mention some now alive, whose Fame will one Day equal that of the Scaligers and the Grotius's of other Nations) were the Glories of our Country, as well as of the Age they lived in.

In short, to conclude this Argument: Though Philological and Critical Learning has been generally accused of Pedantry, because it has sometimes been pursued by Men who seemed to value themselves upon Abundance of Quotations of Greek and Latin, and a vain Ostentation of diffused Reading, without any Thing else in their Writings to recommend them; yet the Difficulty that there is, to do any Thing considerable in it, joyned with the great Advantages which thereby have accrued to the Commonwealth of Learning, have made this no mean Head whereon to commend the great Sagacity, as well as Industry of these later Ages.