A WORD TO THE LITERARY MEN OF ENGLAND

"*Twenty scholars in seven years might retrieve the worst losses we experience from the bigotry of popes and califs.* I do not intend to assert that every Herculanean manuscript might, within that period, be unfolded; but the three first legible sentences might be; which is quite sufficient to inform the intelligent reader whether a farther attempt on the scroll would repay his trouble. *There are fewer than thirty Greek authors worth inquiring for; they exist, beyond doubt, and beyond doubt they may, by attention, patience, and skill, be brought to light.* * * With a *smaller* sum than is ann…