“Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy * ___________ statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel of *______ogy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird’s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of *_______________,
by many nations and generations, including our own. “
