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    Critique on the British Critic* 717

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    msncement of each separate book , is given the name of the translator . —Thus , Dr . Geddes ' Version is adopted as far as the Second Book of Chronicles , Dr . Hodgson ' s of the Proverbs , Isaiah is translated by Lowth and Dodson , Job by Heath and Scott , Jeremiah by B / ahey , Ezekiel and the

    Twelve Minor Prophets by Archbishop Newcome ; men whose shoelatchets these arrogant pretenders are not worthy to unloose . They conjecture , however , I suppose , that among those who deserve to be styled the cc most approved modern Translators , " Dr . Geddes \\ sls not omitted or forgotten ; this

    indefatigable and excellent Hebraist they have the modesty to style " a burlesquer of Scripture /' They add , 4 t This is the translation , reader , which this late fellow

    and tutor , desires to offer instead of the established version , which he modestly includes under the general charge of a defectiveness , which has hitherto been an

    obstacle to the reading of the Scriptures . The other obstacle is according to him , * ' the intermixture of a considerable portion of less important matter with what is confessedly excellent /* He has therefore omitted much . " I would

    ask these wiseacres , if they are prepared to affirm , that all parts of scripture are alike instructive and important , or even that there are not . parts of the Old Testament which a father of a family would wish to keep from the sight of his servants and children . It was the -opinion of a man , equally pious as well as wiser and more learned than either of the British . Critics , I mean Dr . Watts , that such a selection as the present would be highly useful as a { family » Bible «

    Critique On The British Critic* 717

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    The malice of the following sentence will therefore , provoke only a smile of contempt . u It is perfectly plain from Mr . Brown ' s

    preface , that he , with his pious authority Geddes , thinks the scriptural historians not only uninspired , but not always judicious wiiters . " The review ends with the following pious and laudable wish , < fc May obscurity and oblivion be the portion of this vile attempt to mangle and depreciate tke Scriptures ! f" Such , Sir , in the opinion of these enlightened sages , are the labours of Geddes , Lowth , Newcome , Wakefield ,

    Dodson , & c . men , who , to use Mr . Brown ' s language , 4 i were in their days burningandshininglights and whose learned and useful labours , though themselves are removed from this earthly scene , enable them still to speak to the edification and improvement of the

    living . " Really , the impertinent snapping arid baiking of these would-be-critics is quite ludicrous . Their idol , their oracle , their

    Hoysley is no more , —they have no longer the weight of his name or the authority of his learning , but they endeavour to supply these deficiencies by copying the coarse - ness of his abuse , and the grossness

    of his misrepresentations , —yet after all their pains , they are found indeed to be Ci full of souod and fury /* but u signifying nothing /' It requires no wonderful degree of sagacity to predict that iC obscurity

    and oblivion will be the portion of this despicable attempt to mangle and depreciate * ' the characters of those illustrious men whose labours have been honoured with the abuse of the Uvitish Critics , Your * s truly FAIR-PLAY

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/25/