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    confession were justly condemned , that their demerit seems to have been entirely forgotten by the infuriate multitude ; and that nothing might be wanting to satiate the hatred that had arisen out of their disappointed hopes and blasted expectations , not this man / ' they exclaimed , " give us not this man , but Barabbas ! Now Barabbas was a robber . " \ JTo be continued ,, ]

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    88 Bfoums Selections .

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    article i . Plain and useful Selections from the Books of the Old and New Testament , according to the most approved modern Translations . By Theophilus Browne , A . M * late Fellow and Tutor of St . Peter * s College , Cambridge . Vidler and Johnson . Royal 8 vo . 15 s , pp . 602 . It might have been expected from the- improved literature and taste of the present times that attempts would be made to

    Jrender the books of the ewish and Christian covenant more inviting and acceptable to men of study and refinement It would indeed have operated to their disfavour if while every other book aspired to a degree of elegance of both style and typographical execution , they should have been suffered to

    continue in the rude state in which they came out of the hands of our English translators two . centuries ago . The bulk of readers , the young and the superficial , require some other motive besides the love pf knowledge , or the sease of duty , to draw them frequently to the perusal of the same volume . It . is well known likewise , that the objectors to revealed

    religion have commonly fastened upon the mere error * of the vulgar translation of the Bible , or the obviously false glosses that have

    been put upon it ; hence their cavils have been frequently refuted with ease by men possessing but a moderate share of learning ; . Unbelievers have been eminent as philosophers and fine writers , but we do not remember that even one of them is known to have been a great Biblical scholar ! We have always rejoiced , therefore , when able and learned men have applied themselves to the imoroveoient of our vernacular version of the Scriptures , for by no other means could they so effectually

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    " Still pleas ' d to praise , yet not afraid to blame /' Pope . [ Writers and Booksellers desirous of having their Publications noticed early in the Review of the Monthly Repository , are requested to send them as soon as they appear , to the Editor , at the Printer ' s . ]

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/32/