An answer to a late book written against the learned and reverend Dr. Bentley, relating to some manuscript notes on Callimachus together with an examination of Mr. Bennet's appendix to the said book.

Title

An answer to a late book written against the learned and reverend Dr. Bentley, relating to some manuscript notes on Callimachus together with an examination of Mr. Bennet's appendix to the said book.

Author

Whately, Solomon.

Publication

London printed :: [s.n.],

1699.

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Subject terms

Orrery, Charles Boyle, -- Earl of, 1676-1731. -- Dr. Bentley's dissertations on the epistles of Phalaris and the fables of Aesop.

Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742. -- Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris.

Bennet, Thomas, 1673-1728.

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Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• ADVERTISEMENT.
• TO THE Author of the Remarks UPON Dr. Bentley's Fragments OF CALLIMACHUS.
  • concessions
    • CONCESSION I. Dr. Bentley is a Person of Singular Indu∣stry.
    • CONCESSION II. Dr. Bentley is a Person who hath enjoy'd Leisure and the other Opportunities of pursuing his Studies.
    • CONCESSION III. Dr. Bentley is a Person well read in Dicti∣onary-Learning.
    • CONCESSION IV. Dr. Bentley is well vers'd in the Indexes of Books.
    • CONCESSION V. Quotation was once thought the Doctor's peculiar Province; and particularly the Quoting things lying out of the common way of Reading.
    • CONCESSION VI. Dr. Bentley consults the several Editions of Books.
    • CONCESSION VII. Dr. Bentley is presumed to have read all Authors in Critick.
    • CONCESSION VIII. In reading the Ancients, Dr. Bentley di∣gests his Observations and Collections into the method of Common-place.
    • CONCESSION IX. Dr. Bentley had long since formed a Design of Collecting the Fragments of all the Greek Poets.
    • CONCESSION X. Dr. Bentley hath been Critically exact in Correcting the Fragments of Callima∣chus.
    • CONCESSION XI. Dr. Bentley hath made some Additions of his own to Mr. Stanley's MS.
    • CONCESSION XII. That besides what had been formerly print∣ed upon this Author, the Illustrious Spanheim hath done some service to Callimachus both in his Collection of Fragments, and in an entire Volume of Learned Annotations upon that Po∣et; hand in hand, with whose Collection Dr. Bentley's Collection appears, and in multiplied Instances concurs.
  • exceptions
    • Exception I.
    • Exception II.
    • Exception III.
    • Exception IV.
    • Exception V.
    • Exception VI.
    • Exception VII.
  • The First Decad of Proofs.
    • Remarks upon Decad 1.
      • Remark I.
      • Remark II.
        • In Mr. Stanley.
        • Not in Mr. Stanley.
      • Remark III.
    • The Accounts of Decad the First.
  • The Second Decad of Proofs.
    • The Accounts of Decad the Second.
  • The Third Decad of Proofs.
    • The Accounts of Decad the Third.
  • The Fourth Decad of Proofs.
    • The Accounts of Decad the Fourth.
• APPENDIX.
• ERRATA.