Pædantry

And here, were it worth the labour, I could charge my margents with Hebrew enough (borrowed from Alatius) as Sectaries uſually Do Theirs with Greek and Latin, (I know a Little, and ’Tis little enough of that language,) but I Slight ſuch Pædantry, too manifeſt a bragging of Nothing.

All his Diſcourſes (to ſpeak it once for all) were extremely diſtant from any thing that looked like either Levity, or Vanity, or Pædantry.

But since it is arrivd at soe great perfection, it is despisd, and scornd as Pædantry;

FOR Pædantry is But a Lewd Caprich / Which Pupills Catch of Tutor’s like the Itch;[…]From whence the virtuoso-wit of France / Do’s not oppose to knowledg, Ignorance / [But] Pædantry, as th’ Horribler Defect / And Imperfection of the Intellect.

To paſs by the Conceitedneſs of this latter Phraſe, and the Pædantry of affecting to ſpeak Engliſh in Latin Phraſes, ſound they never ſo untowardly, I may I hope without Offence tell him, that neither are the Sacinians at a perfect Agreement in their Notions:[…]

But omitting his mean and ſilly Pædantries, to expoſe the Vanity that he is guilty of in pretending to Wit, and the Diſgrace he hath done it through the Impropriety, and Impurity of Thought and Language, wherein he Affects to be accounted an Eloquent and a Witty Man.

[…]; and that he was free both of pædantry and plagiary, his most usefull works left behind him does declare;

They urged you with a decree of the ſage and ſevere judges of Athens, and you cite them to appear for certain Paragogical contempts, before a capricious Pædantry of hot-livered Grammarians.

>> How's your ornithology going? / > What, do you mean my bad feet? / Don't be silly, that would be pædantry.