Steven Avery
Administrator
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"That Simonides has been called Euclid's Compasses, Chalkenteros, and other hard names, proves nothing. He has omitted to mention many which have been given him in Europe. With regard to his challenge, by which he offers, for the moderate sum of £10,000 sterling, to reproduce the Codex Sinaiticus, I reply as follows. My object is not to prove that Simonides can write something which shall look like an old MS., hut to shew that he did not write the one in question. To all my arguments he has given a most lame and unsatisfactory reply; he accuses me of lack of judgment and discernment, of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. It seems to me that all the camel swallowing is done by his own admirers.
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"That Simonides has been called Euclid's Compasses, Chalkenteros, and other hard names, proves nothing. He has omitted to mention many which have been given him in Europe. With regard to his challenge, by which he offers, for the moderate sum of £10,000 sterling, to reproduce the Codex Sinaiticus, I reply as follows. My object is not to prove that Simonides can write something which shall look like an old MS., hut to shew that he did not write the one in question. To all my arguments he has given a most lame and unsatisfactory reply; he accuses me of lack of judgment and discernment, of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. It seems to me that all the camel swallowing is done by his own admirers.