An Answer to Mr. de Fontenelle's History of Oracles: In Which Mr. Van-Dale's System Concerning the Authors of the Heathen Oracles, and the Cause and Time of Their Silence Is Confuted, and the Opinion of the Fathers Upon That Subject Vindicated

Excerpt from An Answer to Mr. De Fontenelle's History of Oracles: In Which Mr. Van-Dale's System Concerning the Authors of the Heathen Oracles, and the Cause and Time of Their Silence Is Confuted, and the Opinion of the Fathers Upon That Subject Vindicated

And what this judicious Writer has fo Well faid for the feafonablenefs of the Ori ginal, may be equally alledg'd for that of the Tran/lation: I will] there were a like pro portion'between the Performances. If that had been requit'd, might have waited as long for a ion, as the Hi 9 ty did for an Anfwer, and at lall not have pay'd that expeetation half lo well. How-1 ever, it may be fome Plea for deferring this Work no longer, that tho' the Hifiory of Oracle: remain'd unanfwer'd twenty Years, yet I believe it was hardly publilh'd lo ma ny Weeks, before it was tranflated into En and certainly there was as much h e'

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