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    fceptions , so many among the ? highest dignitaries of the Church ' of En ^ l a ^ d , jiave appeared before , thef public m any character , rather than that of theologians . The late Bishop of Dromore was , by no means , an exception to this rejuark . From the series , of his publications , of which , in the v \ aat vf other materials , the present memoir must almost entirely consist , it will appear that , excepting one offering to theology , his pen was devoted to other objects , though neither us * !<^ nor unimportant . T « refine the classical taste of his contempora *

    ries , and , at the same time , to inculcate the purest morality , appear to have been the worthy objects of his attention . He will be found , we believe , in his nu ~ merous selections , to have

    rigorously Tejected , however veiled in obsolete language , every expression , which as Watts complains , £ vep of Che' Spectator , " might raise a blush in the face of strict virtue ; " a caution not always

    regarded by Antiquarian editors , though in their own conduct correctly moral , ' It will appear , in the course ofc thi « memoir , that it became an early object of Mr . Percy ' s attention , to trace modern literature

    from its rude commencements , and especially to investigate the literary antiquities of the northern nations . Xhe first publication , however , ascribed to him , was a translation from the Chinese .

    This publication was anony - niousy though immediately attributed to lm pen . It appeared | ii lytf V under the following title . p AU Kiou CHt ) A an ; or , TicrfcfljsingJiistary s a translation from , * he Chi « $£ I-angu&ge . To which

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    are added . The Argument or StoriJ of a Chinese . Pwy & & Metlection of Chinese Proverbs * Trug * ments of Chinese Poetry . With Notes , 12 mo , 4 vol . ( M . Rev * xxv . 427- ) We are informed u that the translation was found , in manuscript , among the papers of a gentleman , who had large concerns in the East India Company , and occasionally resided much at Canton . — As the version was the work of a gentleman whose province was trade , and who probably

    never designed it for the public ^ nothing c < . uld be expected , from him but fidelity to the originalthe Kdiior , therefore , was obliged so far to revise the whole as to

    render the language somewhat more grammatical and correct ^ retaining the imagery , the allusions , the reflections , the proverbial sayings , any uncommon sentiment or mode of expression , and as much of the Chinese idiom in

    general , as was not utterly inconsistent with the purity of our own . *' * The authenticity of this work as a translation , amidst not a few vejiial literary impostures , re * ceived the following support from the journalist to whom alone we are indebted for our account of } t . " These four thin folios of

    Chinese paper , on which the original rough translation of this novel was written ( the fourth in Portuguese , ) happened some years ago , to be shewn to -some of the gentlemen concerned in tkis Review ,

    who had then an opportunity of perusing . the work , before it had received the polish and improve - ments of the learned a ( nd ingenious Editor , and so for they can bear te&tipnbny to the authenticity of tfye book j but to those who

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    % Literary Memoir of Dr . Percy , late Bishop qf Dromore .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/2/