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    qualifications for estimating a ^ d . r ^ presenting its unrivalled excellence . * I may be permitted , however , % o no * tice its perfect dignity and decorum . It affords an exitmjple of the severest taunts and scoffs , with scarcely any mixture of irony : th ^ t Jigure Qf

    I * pl $ is iw& Z ? V * mw % whh , j €# fi 4 Hastes to reeeitfd £ nd glye the w » 5 embrace : Her sire n s approach she gladly hails , and , warm With tfHal rapture , views her murder * er s form ;**

    speech is applied to the fallen tyrant of Babylon only in the compellation , ** O liueifer , sap of the inornifl ?!"

    Eceles . xii : 3 : " Jte the day wliea the keepers of the Jiouse shall treta * ble , and the strong men shall bow themselves /' ^ f picture vf the infirmities of old ag-e , is presented in this chapter . In the bold mA lofty figures dictated by the genius of the languages of the

    ^ iii . 10 $ nor would the m ore ample use < rf it have suited a poem of $ 9 majestic and grave a cast . " The mighty dead , the great * ones of the earth , all the kings of the nations ,

    are described as joining m these insulting' questions : and I think , with E . F . C . Rosemnuller , that the fair lowing verses ^ down to the 21 st , must be regarded as proceeding lijkewise from their lips .

    Towards the conclusion of the -4 ^ amemnon of iEschylus , some luies occui " wJWcJi have been pronounced , l > y no incompetent judge , f to contain ' the bitterest irony , the most cutting insult , that ever was written by man . "

    They ane part of a chorus in dialogue , vers . 1660 ^—1569 ; I submit a paraphrastical translation of them to my readers , who will del ^ rmiae , whether , in construction and effect , they are not greatly surpassed by the extract from Isaiah * It will ]> e remembered , that

    Agamemnon , after hi ^ return from the protracted war of Troy , wm slain by . pis wifp Clyternnesti ? a , in revenge of his having sacrificed t / heir daughter Iphigenia , at the altar of Diana . He had not been long murdered before the chorus Srpeak of funeral rites ; and Clytepanestra then says ,

    w By me he fell , by , my own arm he < Ued : His burial / decree—yet oot the pride , TOe show , of grief ; the menial , weeping train ! » Siach obseqmes were poor ; « uch rites

    were . Fbr HfiM far Other , fitter honours wait , A father ' s honours , long reserved , by * fate . Quick as his shade on helFs « ad banks ascends , He meets a welcome from exiiltiug

    friends-•* Lowth , de Sacr . Poes . Heb . Prael vii * - —TraBsH . arid Notes ( Issftahi ) In loc . t Wake ^ eld , Correspowdence with C J . Fois :, pp . 174 , 175 .

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    East , and by the usage of ils inhabitants , tlie writer sets forth those iwdif cations of decay , which it wquW have been less deficate # tid proper to have described in plainer terms . Hie p $ s * sage ihas been adi « irably iHu&trjated by a medical author , of our owa country * and of the last century ; by a man *

    whose reputation for science , learning , beneficence and public spirit was of the highest kind , and who devoted a large portion of Ms time and thoughts to scriptural studies , as well as to the reading demanded by his own profess sion . *

    I shall give an account of his interpretation of most < xf the features of this elegant but affecting- portrait . Vers . 1 , H . To not a few iadi vidnals life itself is a long disease : extreme age may , beyond mi question , be pro *

    Bounced a malady , one of the first symptoms and eifiects of which is some failure of 4 he mental faculties . jEhis the Jewish , writer depicts by an image taken from tlie obscurity of the great luminaries of the natural world , from ; the darkness of the sun , the moon and

    the stars 5 to which 4 ) l > je ^ ts the sacred and other authors frequently compare the powers of the intellect . Light * in the language of Scripture , not rarely ? Dr . Jlichsw-d JWead ,, in his IMfecJica Sacra , C . vi ., wnichhas the ' ti ( l ^ Senectw Morbm- This worlc was translated into

    English , from the Latin , by TIhhuuh Smelt , M . D . > M « . S . We are indebted to two ortifer pftiysrcians , fm- exprlanaeHon ^ of the Allegory in , Eceles . xii . ; to Dr * j&hn &mthi > ( JPwtft » fwt pf © 14 . Ag ^ j , 2 d ed- 16 ^^ fJ 9 » 4 to the ; rlate J ) r , Cptton ^ M SK . . 4 Utam-s ( Vajriouis Pieces , ^ c ., Jgocpftd Vol . ) . .. *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/12/