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    Monthly Repository for December , 1820 , p . 714 , deserves very serious attention . Many sincere friends to the Repository wish his hint " to be less liberal in your insertions" had been

    needless . Free inquiry is laudable , but such cavils as have occasionally obtained insertion , and which have received answers long ago , and over and over again , as Euelpis justl y observes , * ' renders the work less fit to be put into the hands of our children and our

    families / ' , indeed , of our friends in general . No doubt you will pay due attention also to Mr . Edward Taylor ' s , in your Repository for November last , p . 662 . Your readers , anxious for true , dislike being misled by erroneous , accounts of the state of religion in places remote from them .

    The respectful manner in which Mr . Rutt speaks of me , p . 726 of the Repository for December last , deserves my best thanks . I remember him when a little boy at Taunton . His disinterested services to the cause of

    religious liberty command my esteem . Though distance prevents personal interviews , some of his particular friends being ako mine , * I cannot think of him as a stranger , and feel anxious for his good opinion of me .

    In my brief History of Nonconformity , printed 1797 , of which all the copies are sold , a life of that courageous , upright and consistent friend of liberty , Mr . John Lilburne , was announced as intended for the press . That intention has not been and now

    cannot be executed by me . A brief but useful account is given of that genuine patriot in the oth volume of the British Biography , sold b y R . Baldwin , Paternoster-row , 1780 . * " The whole work , consisting of 10 volumes , is yet sold in boards for £ 2 . \ 2 s . 6 d . or < £ 2 . I 3 s ; a few copies only remain , It is a work in which I had never the

    least personal interest ; but would be a valuable accession to any " library whatever . If printed now , it could not be sold for double the price . The

    * Amongst whom was the late Rev Wm . Blake , of Crewkerne , whose death has added to the many severe losses lately sustained by the cause of serious , free inquiry .

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    392 Hints for a Hebrew-EnglUh Lexicon

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    Alnwick , Sir , June 19 , 1821 . MONG the numerous Hebrew ALexicons which have been published , several Hebrew English ones , possessing considerable merit , have

    appeared . The principal of these are by Dr . Taylor , Bate , Parkhurst , Pike and Barker . Of these , Parkhurst ' work has become , notwithstanding the extraneous and nonsensical matter with which it abounds , very popular . Pike , however , has had the honour of leading the way in forming a Lexicon upon

    rational principles , and has been subsequently followed by Barker , with some improvements ; but neither of these had clear views of Hebrew primitives , and in the arrangement of the derivatives under their respective roots , they are particularly

    unfortunate I . am disposed to think that Hebrew was originally very copious as well as expressive ; but as it has , for ages , ceased to exist as a living language , and as no remains of it continue but what is found in the Old Testament , we have no satisfactory data upon which to proceed , and , consequently , can arrive at no correct conclusions

    upon a point so desirable . It must , however , be obvious , that many primitive words formerly in use are now lost ; that many of the primitives remaining are used only in a secondary sense ; and that those roots , whose derivatives are the moat numerous , have lost several of them , in consequence of which the chain of connexion is broken , and the most skilful lexicographer is unable to arrange them to his satisfaction . These facts , though discouraging , ought never to produce apathy , but rather lead us to make a judicious use of the materials

    happily in our power , After giving considerable attention to the structure of the language , I am disposed to divide all Hebrew words into primitives , derivatives and compounds ; and I am satisfied that the language can only be clearly understood by attending to this division , and

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    proprietors could not be injured , if some account of Mr . Lilburne were extracted from it in either of your periodical works .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/12/