As the dialogue was of _Erasmus_, my father soon came to himself, and read it over and over again with great application, studying every word and every syllable of it thro' and thro' in its most strict and literal interpretation--he could still make nothing of it, that way. 
But as the dialogue was by Erasmus, he soon read it over again with great application, studying every word through and through.
He could still make nothing of it. 