110 THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND. doth not arise to be critic himself in philological matters, he should he frequently conversing with those books, whether dic- tionaries, paraphrasts, commentators, or other critics, which may relieve any difficulties he meets with, and give him a more exact acquaintance with those studies which he pursues. And whensoeverany person is arrived to such a degree of knowledge in these things, as to furnish him well for the practice of criti- cism let him take great care that pride and vanity, contempt of others, with inward wrath and insolence, do not mingle them- selves with his remarks and censures. Let him remember the common frailties of human nature, and the mistakes to which the wisest man is sometimes liable, that he may practise this art with due modesty and candour.
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