174 CHA?T£R 1 3, 
as throughout the notes, he fpeaks of Par- 
kinson in very contemptuous language, 
and reprefents him as having made Lob el's 
obfervations his own, without acknow- 
ledgment. Whatever may have been the 
cafe in particular inftances, the attack, on 
the whole, was uncandid ^ fince Parkin- 
son, in the very title of his Theatre pro- 
feffes to have made ufe of, and inferted. Dr. 
Lobel's notes, together with thofe of Dr, 
Bo N HAM and others. In fad:, there is a pe- 
tulance and an acrimony in the ftile, both of 
the author and of the editor of this work, 
which, howfoever exampled in the laft age, 
is, happily, much lefs frequently the lan- 
guage of literature in the prefent. 
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