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Updated: May 6, 2025

Or if this plea is found not to hold water, then our scholastic bungler is said to be above this vulgar trial of skill, 'something must be excused to want of practice but did you not observe the elegance of the Latinity, how well that period would become a classical and studied dress? Thus defects are 'monster'd' into excellences, and they screen their idol, and require you, at your peril, to pay prescriptive homage to false concords and inconsequential criticisms, because the writer of them has the character of the first or second Greek or Latin scholar in the kingdom.

William Hazlitt - Table Talk : Essays on Men and Manners