Possibly, the anonymous helper may here have penned, not his employer's feeling, but a line of his own experience.

But I choose to ascribe the passage to the professed author, and to hold him answerable for the inconsistency.

Willing to illustrate by the best and fairest examples these fruitful means of grammatical fame, I am glad of his present success, which, through this record, shall become yet more famous.

It is the only thing which makes him worthy of the notice here taken of him.

But I cannot sympathize with his complaint, because he never sought any but "the poorest reward;" and more than all he sought, he found.