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Scriptures is disgraceful 10 the , beads of the chun ? h > who wg&t surely $ o see : that the Kings Printer ( though called printers on the title-page , they are but one firm , and it is presumed tlipt tjie parent runs in the singular number ) and the delegates of Oxford
and Cambridge , who enjoy with him a concurrent monopoly , do their duty , and do not palm a ^ epurious Bible upon the country . The hardship is great to th £ 7 public , since the patentees absolutely prevent any other Bible being po inted , under very heavy penalties . lEtterv the Bible Society must take the copies , however -corrupt , provided by
tbe ; i ^ 9 BOffoty-pnnters . From a . trial in the Court of Session at Edinburgh , on the 7 th of March last , ( The King ' s Printer for Scotland v . Manners and . Miller , and others , Booksellers in Edinburgh and Glasgow , ) ^ t appears that an individual has a like monopoly in Scotland , and that
the operation of his patent commenced so lately as 1798 . The appeal to the Court of Session was to decide whether he could keep the English patentees out of tbe Scottish market ; and tfee * judgment of the Court interdicts the sale and importation of Bibles or the other standards of the Church
printed in England , without the sanction of the Scottish patentees . The monopoly rests , as we learn from the argument in the Court of Session , on the Royal Prerogative ; Session , on the Royal Prerogative ;
and the ptea for it 4 s , 'that it is necessary that the King should * have this exclusive right in Order to secure to His people the Scriptures in * a correct fc , Bd pure text . But if the monopoly instead of securing , defeats this end ,
as it certainl y does ^ the argument is void | and th ^ Kjtog ^ canjiot be supposed to wish for a , prerogative . that is a hindrance to sacred llter&tujre and an annoyance to the people . Our opinion decidedly is , that this is a fit matter to come before
Parliament by petition . The managers of the Bible Society would perhaps be the most suitable persons to take up ^ e ; question ; but if they hesitate , on ^ tei ^ round of prudence , there wpuld be great propriety in the ministers of v - * r- ¦
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rehgion of various denominations ppr * . suing the object . A committee might be appointed to draw up a table of errors in the various editions , on which to found a complaint . It cannot be that , with this before their eyes , the legislature would quietly allow the evil to , remain .
For obvious reasons , the question should not , in .. . the first instance , at least , be made one of profit and loss ; though the booksellers would probably be able to shew tfyat the monopoly is injurious to trade , and 3 burden upon the public who aaee the purchasers .
( The reader is referred for a few other errata in various editions of the English Bible , to a paper in our last volume * XVII . 692 . )
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No . CCCCII . WTiig and Tory done into Latin * In Dr . Adam Littleton ' s €€ Latine Dictionary , " there are , in the " English Latfne" part , the words Whig- and Tory , with their corresponding Latin terms . The witty lexicographer , ( for he shews wit at least in his sermons , ) evinces that ia Charles the Second ' s
days , a court-chaplain had a proper abhorrence of a Jffhig , though he was npt . yet instructed to praise outright a Ttwy ^ - if > y 4 JjThig . . I | omb fanatlcas , factiosus . . " yWhiggi&m . Enthusiasmufi , perd ^ ellio ( hjgh treaaqn !)"
' * A Torti % bog-trotter or Irish robber . Prredo Hibernicus . . * f A Tory , opposed to Whig . Regiarum partium assertor . " The edition here quoted is the 4 th ,
( 4 to . ) 17 O 3 > saki in the title-page to be improved frpm " a large MS . in three volumes of Mr . Johu Milton /' AVhig and Tpry had come up in , the days of the poet , but we , may acquit hifla * of turning to . ( eminto the atyove Jvatin .
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162 Glmmngt .+ rtyhig < uyl % *< py faQ * £ nto frtin ^ ^
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Gt , EANtNGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OP GENERAL REAjDING .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/34/
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