Excerpt from The British Essayists, Vol. 30: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical; Connoisseur, No 1-46 Let us not, however, be understood as en deavouring to cry down the connoisseur, be cause it cannot rival the rambler in ethics, nor the world' in its knowledge of mankind. It is, after all, a paper of great positive and sterling merit, and keeps its rank among the standard classics of its country, notaby cour tesy, but for intrinsic excellences Which are pe c'uliar to itself. Dr. Aikin perceives in it frequent evidences of' Classical taste and read ing, but thinks it defective in depth and soli dity of thought, and' that it betrays the' nility of the' writers. Bu't although obtained less of the public' esteer'n, ' writesalso that judicious critic, than the world, the adventurer, and the rambler', which ap peared nearly at the same period, yet several paper's in' it surpass' any in those pe'y'brmances, with respect to that humorous delineation of the current manners, which forms so' agreeable and appropriate a part of' a periodical work.'
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