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that . the chiefobject ofmost of his papers v was to vindicate and establish his favourite notion that Philo and Josephus were Christians , and the historians and apologists of Christianity ; and to support the argument of his . last piece on the authenticity of the text of the heavenly witnesses . His last contributions related
to the Baptismal Controversy , m which he a&yanced an opinion that , to say the least of it , was altogether novel . Dr . Jones ranked deservedly high as a scholar and philologist , and his writings on the classical languages are numerous . In 1813 he published a short Latin Gramr mar for the use of schools , which was
reprinted in 1816 . In 1804 he published a Greek Grammar , on an improved plan . This work was repeatedly reprinted ; but in the last year he re-modelled and nearly re-wrote the work , and published it under the title of " Etymologia Grceca or a Grammar of the Greek Language , " &c . The intention of the alterations in this
edition , was to render the Grammar more generally useful to young learners . In the year 1812 Dr . Jones published " A Latin and English Vocabulary , on a simple , yet philosophical principle , for the Use of Schools . " This work he afterwards greatly improved , and re-published , in 1825 , under the the title of "
Analogue Latince , or a Deyelopement of those Analogies by which the Parts of Speech in Latin are derived from each other , '' &c . But Dr . Jones ' s great work on language , to which he had devoted a very large portion of his active life , and the best energies of his mind , was his Greek and English Lexicon , which , appeared in 1823 , in one volume octavo . The success of this work
equalled his most sanguine wishes . A large impression was rapidly sold . It was not to be expected that a work of this nature and extent could be sent forth wholly free from defects , or that the author , whatever might be his learning and critical skill , should be able in every instance to secure the concurrence of scholars in his derivations and
explanations . But though the work may possibly be liable to some objection , the author has executed his task in a manner highly creditable to his industry , his erudition , his taste , and critical acumen . He has been rewarded by the approving verdict of some of the first scholars and critics ofthe age , and , among others , by the late Dur . Parr .
When the impression of this work was nearly sold , Dr . Jones printed another of a similar kind , but designed for a differeiU . class of persqns . This < he entitled the " Tyro ' s Greek and English Lexi-
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con , " which is a very excellent and useful publication . Dr . Jones had intended to revise the first Lexicon , and to repute lish it at some future period , with all the improvement which further researches . arid a more mature consideration could impart to it . He had , however , at the time of his death made very little progress , and the author ' s copy remains nearly in the same state in which it was printed .
Not long after the publication of the first Greek Lexicon , some severe animadversions in a critical journal , drew from Dr . Jones an indignant and triumphant reply , in a pamphlet which he entled , " An Answer to a Pseudo Criticism
of the Greek-English Lexicon , which appeared in the Second Number of the Westminster Review ; " a criticism which he ascribes to a " Mr . John Walker , late Fellow of Dublin College , " and characterizes as a malignant personal attack .
In the course of the last year Dr . Jones published " An Exposure of the Hamiltonian System of Teaching Languages , in a . Letter addressed to the Author of an Article recommending that System , 'in No . 87 of the Edinburgh Review . " We have taken some notice of this able pamphlet in our Review department , p . 109 .
Dr . Jones ' s last work was entitled , " An Explanation of the Greek Article , in Three Parts . 1 . Analysis and Refutation of Dr . Middleton ' s Theory . 2 . An Analysis of Matthiae's Dissertation . 3 . An Application of the Article to obscure Passages ofthe New Testament . " This work was printed during . the author ' s life-time , but he died before it was published . ^
. The characteristics of Dr . Jones ' s mind were an irrepressible ardour and enthusiasm in the prosecution of whatever he undertook ; great confidence in the correctness of his own views , arising from a consciousness of superior intellectual powers ; an utter disdain of the authority of great names when he failed to be convinced by their arguments ; a devoted attachment to truth , and a faithful
adherence to what he deemed such , united with a fearless disregard of personal consequences . By posterity he will probably be better known as a scholar and philologist , than as a theologian and ecclesiastical historian ; though he seemed himself confidently to expect that the progress of knowledge would tend to support his speculations , and to demonstrate to , general conviction the correctness and truth of his theories . He has
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296 Obiiuary ~ - ~ Dr . John Janes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/64/
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