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    The Quakers have a lunatic asylum near York : a proof , says the Abbe , of the tendency of their religion to make men mad 1 The same thing he observes of the doctrine of the Methodists , and quotes , as his justification , William Perfect ' s Annals of Insanity ! ( p . Ixviii . )

    One remark of our author ' s may read a lesson to our Calvinistic brethren on the custom of denouncing opinions on account of their deistical tendency ? «• We may divide the modern sects into two princip al branches 5 the one embraces those which incline towards deismy the

    Calvinists , Lutherans , Anabaptists , Sccimans , Unitarians ; the others lean towards enthusiasm , the Pietists , Methodists ^ Swedenborgians , Jumpers , Shakers , &c . " ( pp . Ixx , lxxi . ) In another passage , with which our extracts for the present number must conclude , the Abbe is more just in his estimate of sectarian tendencies :

    u Most new sects have manifested an inclination towards political liberty ; the result of the persecutions which they have experienced , and of the lights spread abroad by the cultivation of letters 5 in this particular they are in unison ivith the gospel : fortlie same reason , also , a crowd of

    voices have been raised against negro-slavery . In England , almost all the Dissenters are o pposed to arbitrary power , and belong to the Whig party : the men who are most religious are at the same time the warmest defenders of public libertyP ( p . Ixxi . )

    fc ' ee here , Protestant Dissenters ! the character which ye ought to bear and which is your true glory . If this be the effect of dissent , what lover of his country and of his species will not say , Esto perpetual ( To be continued . )

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    Ch . i . 4 , ¦ " went out and feasted in their houses . ' * Pub . * Vers . " were wont to hold a banquet house . " Good . This phrase is repugnant to the English idiom : and we do > ubt whether it be correct in point of rendering . Rosenmiiller is more successful—Consneverant quisque domi sjjub convivio celebrare . " They made a family-feast . " Chappelow ' s Comment , in loc * Heb . iii « 6 .

    " every one , his day . " Pub . Vers . —* ' every one , on his birth-dayJ ' Good . This more accurate translation had been given by Rosenmiiller and other writers . The authors of the valuable version of the Bible in French

    ( Geneva 1805 . ) , have , " chacun—le jour de sa naissance" Thus , too , Scott , in his truly poetical translation of the book of Job , u Ou the glad- season of each natal day ^ Sweet friendship calFd , the brother-friends obey . "

    5 * < l and cursed God in their hearts . " Pub . Vers— " nor blessed God in their hearts . " Good . A very ingenious and plausible alteration , and , so far as our knowledge reaches , original ! The soundness of it we will discuss when Mr . G . ' s notes come

    under our consideration . 11 , and ch . ii . 5 . he will curse thee to thy face . Pub / 1 Vers . " will he then indeed bless thee to thy face ?" Good . We believe that the interrogative form is admissible in this clause , and that our translator is correct in

    not departing from the current acceptation of the Hebrew verb . 22 . " nor charged God foolishly . " Pub . Vers . — nor vented a murmur against God . " Good . Here we

    give the preference tp the marginal reading in our English Bibles , " nor attributed folly to God : " it is the most literal and simple . So the LXX and the Vulg . ; but most of the translator ^ sanction the rendering : of Mr . G .

    ii . 7 . " sore biles . " Pub . Vers . — " a burning ulcerai ion . " Good . According to Rosenmiiller , nicere pessimo , which is still more faithful . In like manner , the French Genevan translation , d ' un nlcere 7 nalin . The received version scarcely conveys an idea of the patriarch s dreadful malady .

    gm « Curse God and die . " PuK y . « Ble&sing Cod and dyings * Good . This change , anticipated by the Pastors and Professors of Geneva

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    Review . ——Good ' s Translation of the Book of Job . log

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    Art . IL Good ' s Translation of the Booh ofj » b 9 $ rc . Sec , [ Continued from page 53 . ] j UTAVING finished our remarks 1 X upon Mr . G . \ s Introductory Dissertation , we now proceed to his

    translation . Our purpose is to point out some of his deviations from the Public Version of the book of Job , ar *< to select one or two passages , for tta further information of our readers . The first part , comprehending only two chapters , is narrative . We think , jvith Binhop Lowth , Rosenmiiller and 1 ichhorr ^ t hat it should be re garded as a preface , written in prose , and destill « e of metrical arrangement :,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/45/