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    lustrations my object was to bring together as much information as I could , without descending to that miauleness which the niceties of verbal criticism

    required ; but which , if attended to , would necessarily have placed the work by its extent and refinement beyond the reach of general readers , for whose use it was designed . The consequence was . that I left some things in

    several places to be supplied by the good sense and learning of my readers ; though I was sensible , that where they did not see the subject with my ideas , they could perceive only omissions or inconsistencies * which

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    REMARKS I ^ gp THE ACCOUNT OF TUB IMPROVED VERSION QF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE QUARTERLY REVIEW , BETTER I .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Hackney , sir , July 17 , 1809 , The obvious design of the Improved Version of the New Testament , and of the Nt > tes which accompany it , being to explain the scriptures in a rational sense , and to shew that the New

    Testament properly understood gives no countenance to those strange and heathenish systems of theology which have been grafted upon it , and which many mistake for the doctrine of Christ , it is

    not at at all surprising , that the interested or prejudiced advocdtej for popular creeds have taken the alarm , and thar , as usual in such cases , they are opening in full cry to run the obnoxious victim down / The editors could expect no other treat - ment , as the work came to be

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    they would construe into marks of haste , and of an indisposition to rninute examination and correction . The above objection of your correspondent is , I pre

    sume , one instance of this kind ; and I return him my thanks for the opportunity he has given rrie to do justice to rnyself . He will lay me under additional obligation if , feeling equal reasons

    to object in other places , he or any other of your readers , would , through you , Mr , Editor , propose them to me . I promise either to make good my grounds > or publicly to acknowledge my errors . JOHN JONES .

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    more generally known , and the alarm to spread . Well may the old serpent hiss , and writhe , add struggle , when Truth , ever-victorious , is trampling upon his head-In the foremost rank of

    hostility pricks forth a redoubtable critic , in the second number of the Quarterly Reviezv . This publication is understood to be set up in professed opposition to the gigantic talents and commanding

    influence of the Edinburgh Review ; which , in some of its late numbers , has been diffusing through the unparalleled extent of its circulation , a blaze of moral

    and political light by far too dazzling and powerful for the tender eyes of the owls and the bats . It i * in compassion to these gentle and useful animals that the Qwarterly Preview has been established

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    The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version . 373

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/19/