This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...in his borrowed plumes, qualifying himself to be Jay Professor, not only in Columbia College, but in any college in the universe. Sometimes he boldly avows wholesale appropriations. Sometimes he quietly slips in the dove-tailed passages without a word of explanation. When the laborious writers, who have spent their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...in his borrowed plumes, qualifying himself to be Jay Professor, not only in Columbia College, but in any college in the universe. Sometimes he boldly avows wholesale appropriations. Sometimes he quietly slips in the dove-tailed passages without a word of explanation. When the laborious writers, who have spent their days arid nights on the elucidation of an author, are turned to account by humbler expositors, it is often inexpedient or impossible to attribute to each mighty name, what peculiarly belongs to it. But it has ever been the practice in such cases, to acknowledge the sources whence the mass of the remarks have been derived, and, in cases of the use of the ipsissima verba, to give them with marks of quotation. Now this, which is so evidently just, that we regard its practice as axiomatic, is constantly and systematically violated by Professor Anthon. We accuse him accordingly on three counts. He borrows from accredited works, avowedly, but far beyond the fair bounds of such accommodation; thus extending, it may be, the names of the authors, in America, but unquestionably injuring the sale of the works in this country, wherever these editions are used; such a practice, moreover, being most unscholarlike. He appropriates the critical remarks and the information furnished by others, without acknowledgment, translating them into his own language. He steals the remarks of others, without any change of language, and without any acknowledgment.--Now let us briefly substantiate each of these charges; and that principally from his edition of Horace. In his preface, be it observed, he takes no notice of obligation to any previous commentator whatever. After a life of Horace, and some other preliminary matter, we have an account of the life and character of Ma...
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