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    labours in the cause of learning and religion . One branch of the department of learning to which he devoted himself , may be considered as nearly exhausted by the works he has published . Certainly , no new collation of Hebrew manuscripts of the Scriptures will be ever attempted , unless some accident , of which we have now no

    conception , should bring to light an ante-mas ore tic text . The pretensions to such a text , madefy the late Dr . Buchanan and the editor of the fragment brought by him from the East ,

    are on a par with the pretensions of the original Latin Gospel of St . Mark , preserved at Venice . Of the Rabbins , we confess , we think more use might be made . Like the Greek scholiasts , they have been too much or too little consulted ; and while one generation of critics , such as the Buxtorfian or

    the Danzian , has borrowed too blindly from them , it is , perhaps , an equal fault on the other side , that they have been treated with unmerited contempt . We have taken the more pleasure in making this abstract from Professor de Rossi ' s Memoirs , for the proof it furnishes that the Catholic Church is

    not wholly inattentive to thqse studies which the Protestants are apt to think are confined to themselves . Of the sacred critics living , few names will

    take precedence , in the estimation of posterity , of De Rossi at Parma , of Jahn at Vienna , or of Hug at Frieburg ; the two former , and we believe the latter , not only Catholics , but priests . If to these be added Dr . Geddes , who

    belongs to this generation , there is certainly no branch of literature of the Old Testament which will not owe nearly as much to Catholics as to Protestants . It is also pleasing to behold in Italy —almost the last land one would wish

    to see an ignorant land—bright examples still occurring of that noble < piXo-• rrov / a , which it is thought had almost wholly emigrated beyond the Alps . If this country , the native one of so many arts , had no other names to shew than

    those of Caluso of Turin , and Marini and Visconti of tlome , all deceased within a few years , the last within one and a half , ot Mai at Milan , De ftossi at Parma , Morelli at Venice , and Met * zofante at Bologna , it might still claim , for this generation an eaual division of

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    learned fame yrith almost afcy of the past . Ona superiority they m&y pethaps be allowed td possess over the mass of transalpine scholars , and it Is surely that which ought to be regarded With least jealousy ,- —the writing of Latin . Not Oessnef , nor even Ruhnken , ( whose Dutch abridgement of Scheller is the best manual Latin

    dictionary , ) have made Forcellini , who was thought to write 'Latin better than any man of his day , less acceptable ; and even Poscolo , though a Greek by birth , amidst the distractions of a

    political and military life , in these revolutionary times , has entered into the varieties of the Latin language with the delicacy of a native , leaving you at a loss in his Didymus which most to wonder at , the exactness with which .

    in the work itself , he has caught the ungraceful but expressive rudeness of the vulgate , or the ease with which , in the preface , he passes from the elegant fluency of Cicero to the precision of Sallust .

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    Account of the Establishment of Pre&bytetiamsm in Manchester . 387

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    Account Of the Establishment of Presbyter ianiam in Manchester . From the Original Document .

    No . I . Manchester , Sir , May 1 , 1821 . BOOK , in manuscript , now lies A before me , which is in itself a

    considerable object of curiosity , but still more so , as it gives an account of the proceedings of a Presbyterian ciassis in this town and neighbourhood during the protectorate of Cromwell . I do not doubt but extracts from this

    Register of the meetings of the classia will prove acceptable to many who wish to preserve from oblivion the acts of their religious progenitorsthose with whom originated most of the present Presbyterian congregations

    in this district ; and they may , perhaps , induce some of your readers and correspondents to turn their attention more to the antiquities of this denomination of Christians , which have

    been too much overlooked . Of the origin and early state of many of our congregations very little is now known . The book is a verv bulky volume , written in a kind of < 5 erman text , not easy to be read ; the title-page is in an " ornamental style , especiall y the word classis \ of which the following is

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/7/