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Manner is then limited, and fo when a Curious Perfon 
comes into a Gallery, he knows that thk Pifture was done 
hfUyley^ Knelkr^ Vandyke^ Dobfon^ Tintoret^ C^r. and 
that to be a Copy zitct Reubens^ Gcorgeon^ Salv. Rofa, Han. 
Caraccioy Pietro di Cortdm^ &c. When he comes to an 
Ofera^ to a Confort^ or to Churchy not knowing before- hand 
whatMnficisto be performed, yet he may foondifcern that 
it was composed by Corelli^ Baptijl^ BaJJani^ Charijjimi^ Blow, 
Puree//, &c. And fo upon Reading an Antient Author, i 
fagacious and learned Perfon may find, that he writes ac- 
cording to the manner of fuch an Age, that the Style imi- 
tates fuch another, or that the Book, tho it bears fach a 
Mans Name, yet might, perhaps, be more truly afcribed 
to another, with whofe Style it more exaftly agrees : As 
for Example, that Piece of S. CyrH% publifti'd from the 
Bfcurial MS. by Barthafar Corderius^ is thought ( by reafon 
of the Analogy in point of Style) to be Origens : But then, 
whether ^// thk can be ahvajs done, dorje 'ea/ily and vpithout 
Errcfrs^ rs the doubt. And it feems yet a greater diflBculty, 
certainly to difcover . hom? old the Painter^ Mufician^ Poety 
Orator^ or other Author was, when he finifb'd any one 
piece of his Works, unlefs a man is plainly told fo : This 
being a fort of Knowledge, that thofe who have been 
tJtherwife fufficiently experienced in their feveral Atts and 
?rofe(Sons, have not as yet pretended to. 
Ill Olavi 
