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this measure , though Sturze and Sch leusner are chargeable with the neglect of it . The practice affords unspeak able advantages to the learner as it enables him , by the most
obvious and simple analogy , to retain words in his mind which would otherwise be forgotten unless held by the sole grasp of a powerful memory . The above explanation of fSociva , and its several branches , is in our opinion
deserving of attention , as being perhaps the fairest specimen of lexicography that can well be met with . The learner is put in complete possession of its several senses by the aid of the context . The several
branches of the verb are stated with the anomalies caused by the dialects and poetic licence . Dr , Jones has , indeed , largely profited by the labours « fDamm , but he has condensed his matter into one tenth of the space
which is occupied by that most admirable and useful lexicographer . Nor has he servilely copied his model , but tacitly shews him to have been mistaken in threfc or four points in this very article . Daram makes j 3 e-BZa-i . to be the Ionic form of
BeBnycao ~ i ; whereas Dr . Jones represents it as a contraction of the perfect middle fiefiaaa-i . - Daram again states j £ e-P £ ( aev to be a poetic form of ( 3 rjuai , while Dr . Jones takes it to be the
perfect middle infinitive , psfiawai , by Syncope $ E $ oLva . iy fitfiuyLzv . The former writer seemingly , could not comprehend how / 3 aofjuzij if the Ionic form of fiya-ouai could mean , * I will love
or obey / as it does in II . o . 194 . He therefore classes it with fiioca as its root . But Dr . Jones has happily hit on the intermediate idea , for what is to love or obey a person , but to go by his will ? And here it is obvious
to remark , how similar the idioms of the Greek and of the English are to each other on many occasions . This is one among many reasons , why a Greek Lexicon should be written in our native tongue . Damm renders 0 ? V etvai , II . 0 . 183 , by caepit currefe : but this version does not seem
so well to express the sense of the original , as * he hastened to go / or * he hastily went - / nor does fi ^ f 8 * * Xaav , bear the precise sense of agebat equos , butis more adequately represented by « he hastened to drive / *> he hastily drove . ' And here it
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is worthy of notice , -that where Dr Jones quotes a phrase differing in genius irom one in our own tongue , he renders it literally first , and then expresses it in a free version , conformably to our own . This is not
the usual practice of lexicographers , but it is as it should be , since it en * ables the learner to perceive in his own tongue the peculiar features of the Greek . Upon the whole , this Lexicon is a work of great labour and research . We have much pleasure in
adding , that we deem it also a work of very great merit , which we conceive cannot fail to meet the approbation and patronage of those , who , where the English language is used , study to acquire a knowledge of the Greeks J . JONES .
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Unitarianism in the United Stales of America . SOME very interesting letters have been lately received b y Mr . Belsham from America , and put into our hands by the venerable friend , to whom they were addressed . We lay before our readers a few extracts .
The names of the writers are well known in this country , Jbut we do not think it necessary to give them . The fact of Mr . Jefferson , the Ex-President , having avowed his belief in
Unitarian Christianity , is of great importance , and will be hailed with delight by all that desire to see divine revelation adorned by the intellectual endowments and public virtue of its individual professors .
The following is from a letter dated Baltimore , June 20 , 1823 . ' * In this country the interests of religious truth are as prosperous as could be expected . Important changes of opinions and habits must always be slow . Prejudices are
stubborn things , and can be removed only by degrees ; but in the United States I have reason to think , that they ^ re yielding as rapidly as the nature of things will admit . The advocates of old systems are awake ; the levers of
the dark things of the dark ages are numerous and vigilant ; opposition to the progress of religious Knowledge is perpetual and strong ; the flood- ' gates of obloquy are hoisted ; and the thunders of anathema and denunciation roar from one end of the Union to the other ; vet there is a spirit
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/37/
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