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    Memoirs of Professor de Rossi.

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    The great progress I made , in the four months that I attended to it , and the many performances which I have in part preserved , are proofs of the happy turn I had by nature for the arts . "

    Desirous of taking his theological degrees , he repaired to Turin at the age of 20 , and in the following year was admitted to the first of them . The King of Sardinia , Victor , having wisely made it the duty of all candidates for the theological degrees to study the

    Hebrew language , De Rossi devoted himself to it , and with such zeal , that he was in the space of a few months in a cohdition to compose and to translate in this language , of which he failed not to give many proofs , such as an

    epistle and a prose canticle * addressed to his professor , the speech of Esther % translated from the Vulgate into Hebrew , and many parts of the Hebrew translated into Italian . Extending his attention from the ancient to the

    modern poesy of the Jews , he applied himself so diligently to the latter , that at the end of the sixth month , he cornposed and published a poem in a new and most difficult metre , addressed to Monsignor Ror& , newly made Bishop

    of Ivrea . This rapidity of acquisition , as De Rossi himself remarks , attracted no small notice , and , among others , that of the Jews , and upon occasion of this remark he gives us an anecdote of his early zeal in applying his learning to the defence of his faith . " An

    individual of this nation , whom I met accidentally at a bookseller ' s , after having asked me if I could read Hebrew , gave me , as a ? trial , the celebrated verse in Deuteronomy , * Hear , O Israel , the Lord thy God is one

    Lord : * repeating as I read it , that it was echad , one . True , answered I , perceiving his malice , and the unity ot God is a fundamental article of Christianity . But why is the name of God thrice repeated ? He being unable to answer , I took this occasion to shew him how , in this very verse , by which he thought to impugn it , that myatery

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    [ The following biographical sketch is extracted from the < c North American Review , " for January 1820 ., where it appears as a review of Me morie Storiche , 8 fc . y i . e . " Historical Memoirs of the Studies , and Productions of Dr . John Bernard de Rossi , Professor of the Oriental Languages ; written by Himself . " The " North

    American Review , " is a Quarterly Literary Journal , on the plan of our two great English Journals . We are happy to be able to give so interesting a specimen of Transatlantic periodical literature . Ed . ]

    JOHN BERNARD DE ROSSI was born in Piedmont , October 25 , 1742 , of a respectable family , which had received at various times several marks of the favour of the

    dukes of Savoy . After the first school education at Bairo , he went , at the age of 14 , to Ivrea , where , to use the phrase of the French and Italian schools , he made his grammar , humanities and rhetoric . At this early age , he gave an indication of his future zeal as a writer , by extracting from the Latin classics , which he studied , and the philosophy he read , the striking maxims and fine moral passages they

    contained , and forming of these a compendium . iC This , * ' says he , " was the commencement of two practices which I ever afterwards observed ; one , to read no book without making a note of the remarkable things it contained , and another , to form , upon the maxims

    thus collected , as far as they accord with religion , my own character and conduct . " While at Ivrea , he determined on embracing the ecclesiastical profession , and commenced the study of theology * He also amused himself in making sun-dials , horizontal and vertical , at all declinations , and figures in relief , which he afterwards coloured .

    ' While at Ivrea , also continues Professor de Rossi , " I had the fancy to take lessons in drawing of the Canon Stephen Peronetti , an excellent painter , who had studied in Rome .

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    No . CLXXXVIL ] JULY , 1821 . [ Vol . XVI .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/1/