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co ^ r welcomed by > every one \ yith a kiss of ^ aluttatiori ; and the pleasures of social intercourse , so rarely enjoyed by the Icelanders , g ^ re happilyw connected with the occasion which summons them to
the discharge of their religious duties . The priest makes his appearance among them as a friend ; he salutes individually , eac& mem . b ^ r of his tlock , and stoops down
to give his almost parental , kiss to the little , ones , who are to grow up un . d ^ r his pastoral charge . These offices of kindness performed , they all go together into the house of
prayer ., There are two versions of the Bible , in the Icelandic language ; the first of which was translated by Gudbrand Thorlakson ^ Bishop of
HaHum , from the German Bible of Martin Luther , and published in ^ WWHj the second was executed chiefly- hy Bishop Skulasson ^ in conformity with the Danish version pf Reseniu $ v and appeared
about sixty years afterwards , under the more immediate patronage of the . King of Denmark . The latter of these versions is preferably to the former , merely from the division of the £ e ? u into verses ; the of
w ^ iich division edition Bishop Thorlahson did not supply . At present ^ owing the kngtb of time which has elapsed since any edition appeared , there is a great deficiency of Bibles in every part
of Iceland ; an evil which from the depressed state of the printing , establishment of the island , it is scarcely possible that the unaided effibjrts of the people should be enabled to remove .
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, Issue of the Present Political Convulsions . . v rFrom Mr . nmw Lord ) Erskine ' s Speech tor Mr . Cuthcll , Feb . 21 , 1799 , on * pro-
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secution for selling Mr . OilbertWaV eilc ^^ Reply to the Bisftop of I landafPs Address , in EjrsJune ' s < c Miscellaneous Spcefcfee $ , ' \ Svo . publ shed by Ridgwsy . fSJ 2 , ppf 24 l -- i' 4 J . i ¦ ** . ¦
With regard to ^ the book itsejf , though I leave its defence to its eminently learned author , yet there are some passages which-I cannot help noticing . ( Here Lord Erskine commented vport several- ( xf them ? and then concluded as fol *
lows . ) I was particularly struck , indeed , that the following passage * should have made any part of the indictment : " JVe sons < yf peace , or see , or think we see , a gleam of glory through the misi nhich now envelops our horizon . Great re ±
volutions pre accomplishing ; a ge ± neralJermentation is working for the purpose of gtnrr / il rejin * mwt through the Universe "—It does * not follow ' from this opiniqn or pre-c possession ot the author , " tfcat he therefore looks u > the consumrbu- i tion of * revolutions in the misery '
or djestruction of his own country ; the sentiment is the ve / ry reverse ; it is , that amidst this continuecf * scene of horror whicfy confounds ^ and overwlielms the human imagO nation , he - rep 6 se » a pious
confidence , that events tvhich appear evil on the sqrface ^ are , ijn the contemplation of the wise and benevol ^ ft Autho r of all things , leading on iri tfoeir conseqpences to good , the prospect of which Mr . Wake field considers a * a
gleam of glory through the mist which now envelops ~ our hb ? iZ 6 n + I confess for one , that ^ amidst all the crimes and horrors whiefcr l ? certainl y feel mankind have to commiserate at this moment ^ peTha ^ beyond the example of any foroi ^ r * period , crimes anAhorrorswAiiol ^ i
trusty fhy humanity revolts at ¦* & much as a » y other man ' s , I s ^ cr nothing to fear for dtir epimtry or
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? % * Isjtie ofi % e Pr& 3 eniT * otitic& % Xfohvutsions * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/14/
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