The Lives of the Saints Volume 1 - St. Patrick's Basilica

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St. Gregory Nazianzen, in his oration on St. Basil. If, by slips of
copiers, mistakes have happened to some names, of accidental
circumstances; or if certain private persons should be convicted of
having been any time deceived in some saint, this would not affect
the credit of authentic general Martyrologies.
5. Mrs. Dacier, Mr. Rowe.
6. This made Theodorus Gaza say, that if learning must suffer a general
shipwreck, and he had only his choice left him of preserving one
author, Plutarch should be the man.
7. With this fault the famous king of Prussia, who is perfectly
acquainted with the affairs of the North, charged the florid author
of the history of Charles XII. of Sweden. Nor could this historian,
as it is said, give any other answer to the complaint of the
Hamburghers, that he had notoriously slandered them with regard to
their conduct towards the citizens of Altena, than that his fiction
was plausible and ingenious, founded in their mutual jealousy,
according to the maxim of dramatic writers, _Feign with
probability_. Of this cast, indeed, though we have many modern
examples, we know, perhaps, none among the authors of antiquity.
8. Thirty thousand various readings were found by Mr. Mills in the
Greek New Testament; Dr. Bentley reckoned twenty thousand in
Terence, and twice as many as there are verses in the poet Manilius.
Even the most valuable Vatican and Alexandrian manuscripts of the
Bible abound in faults of the copiers; and editions of works made
from single manuscripts are always very defective.--witness those of
Cornelius Nepos, and the Greek Hesychius. Patrick Young, (called in
Latin, Patricius Junius,) when keeper of the king's library at
London, scrupled not to erase and alter several words in the most
valuable Alexandrian Greek manuscript copy of the Bible, as is
visible to this day. What wonder, then, (how intolerable such
liberties are,) if the like has been sometimes done by others in
books of less note, with a presumption like that of Dr. Bentley in
his amendments of Horace.
9. Prelim Dissert. on St. Matthew.
10. Sine probabilibus autoribus, Conc. t. 7, 954.
11. Can. 62.
12. Règies de la Critique, t. 2, p. 12, 20, et Diss. 3, p. 134.
13. See Mabillon, Disquis. de Cursu Gallic. §1.
14. Tert. l. de Bapt. c. 17.
15. Catal. Vir Illustr. c. 7.
16. See Nat. Alexander, Collet, Henno, &c., in Decalogum de Mendacio.
17. Grot. l. de Antichr. t. 3, Op. Theolog.
18. Gerson, ep. ad Morel.
19. De Loc. Theol. l. 11, c. 5.
20. Diplomat. l. 3, c. 3.
21. Coutant, Vindic. veter. Cod. Confirm. p. 32, 550, &c.