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dnd a n enduring substance . * They wh o say such thing's , ' as the author of this epistle remarks , they who acknowledge human life to be a pilgrimage , and yet are persuaded of the wisdom and goodness of God , * declare plainly that they seek a country . * Can it he supposed that we
were endued with such noble powers and capacities , only to flutter about lite the insect race , and then to disappear for ever ; that we were introduced into this grand and beautiful theatre , merely to glance at the works of God , and then to be blotted out from creation ? Shall we suppose that God has made all men in vain ? Does
the breath of the Almighty , which animates our frame , vanish into air ? Will light never arise on the long night of the grave ? Do the wise and the worthy , the pious and the just , the great and the good , the
excellent ones of the earth , withdraw ^ into annihilation , and set in darkness to rise no more ? If such were to be our state , would not man appear , of all creatures , the most unaccountable ? Would not the world be
a chaos without form and order , and human life a paradox beyond our power to explain ? " Pp . 284 , 285 . The Volume closes with the Funeral Sermon for Mr . Harrison , by
Mr . John Holland , which breathes an affectionate respect for the deceased and contains an interesting comparison between him and his colleague , Dr . Barnes .
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it occurs : and whenever" it -fe ^ m % ployed negatively , it has the precis force of , and in its general range run * precisely parallel with , our own not , and the Latin nee or neve : and hence is only an imperfect or half negative . is only an imperfect or half negative ,
requiring a preceding negative , at nor and nee require , to make the nt > gation complete . 11 He adds , " Now I venture to lay it down , as a philological canon , applicable to all Ian * gTiages whatever , that the imperfect neg& tive may be employed alone in every sen .
tence compounded of two opposite pro . positions , when it becomes the means of connecting the one vriih the other : gueh propositions being ia a state of reciprocal negation , and the former , of course , sup * plying- the place of an antecedent negative to the subsequent arid imperfect connecting ; particle . ' *
Of this canon he gives some examples from the English language , and one from the Latin ; but we must confess ourselves greatly disappointed that he has not produced a single incontrovertible illustration of it from the Hebrew tongue . Nor is it within
our power to supply the deficiency . We have in vain had recourse to Noldius , who assigns indeed to the particle in question the sense ointquef" \ yet immediately subjoins , pott negationem : and the truth is that is all his instances the foregoing clause
expresses a negation . It would afford us considerable pleasure if Mr . G . himself * or any of our readers , could establish his rule beyond the reach of doubt . At present , we cannot admit it as universal . If the particle which is the subject of his criticism , have *
negative signification only when it follows a direct arid unequivocal negation , the words " may have sinned nor blessed God , " must be pronounced more agreeable to the usage of English than to that of Hebrew authors : and it will still remain to be provd
that they are a legitimate translation of the original . , In his Dissertation ( xv . ) Mr . G ood observes , that " the interrogation ° the Almighty , Ch . i . 8 , ii . S , ' Hart thou fixed thy view upon my servant Job , a perfect and upright man ? ' w intended a * a severe and most appropriate sarcasm upon the wm spirit . " It is a contrast , he thin ** b&Ween tht i * iid <* Viatiftg virtue of *»
t 66 iU 5 ©* d 6 ntit f ^ rtlcttl . &c- ( lfl 4 f pp . » 4 , Uc .
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170 Review . —Gootfs TrUfottttim &fi % t Buok o / JoK
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Art . ' T II . Goods ranslation of the Booh of Job , # y \ fyc . [ Concluded from page 118 . ] " TTlTHOEVER attempts to write t ¥ on the book of Job , must be a happy man indeed , if he does not commit some errors . " This was the
remark of the learneq Mr . Peters : * and both the fact and the principle here implied , are sufficiently established by experie / ice . We cannot be astonished , therefore , at
meetingwith mistakes in the Notes of the author , whose Translation of the poem before us , and whose Introductory Preface to it , have couie , of late , uhder our
review-He has favoured us ., nevertheless , with many excellent observations upon his rendering of a clause of the fifth verse of the first chapter : " may have sinned , nor blessed God /* " The original particle / ' he says , * ' is either affirmative or negative , according- to the nature of the proposition ! in which
* Critical Dissertation , &c . find ed . ) m .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/42/
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