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from Mr. Wharton's narrative of his own life, 

 that much disagreement took place between 

 Dr. Cave and him, during the progress of the 

 Historia Literaria. As Mr. Wharton's account 

 of this matter has been given, it seems but 

 equitable to suffer Dr. Cave to tell his own 

 story, by inserting the following letter addressed 

 by him some years afterwards to Archbishop 

 Tenison, complaining bitterly of Mr. Wharton's 

 behaviour, in unduly arrogating to himself the 

 credit of having composed a great part of that 

 work. The real state of the case seems to 

 have been, that Mr. Wharton, a young man of 

 uncommon natural powers, indefatigable indus- 

 try, and ardent spirit of research, availed him- ^ 

 self, with great rapidity, of the materials and 

 references, which the extensive reading of Dr. 

 Cave supplied for carrying on the Historia Li- 

 teraria: and, feeling conscious of his powers 

 and of the assistance which he really contri- 

 buted, he forgot that the foundation of the whole 

 was furnished by the erudition of Dr. Cave, and 

 arrogated more to himself than he really ought. 

 Dr. Cave too seems to have irritated the young 

 scholar by some moroseness and harshness of 

 temper, by undervaluing the assistance which 

 he afforded, and by showing towards him some 

 feelings of jealousy to which a person of his 

 high eminence ought to have been superior. 



