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Wk ... and the Court , there would have been great probability of its success : however , a long intimacy with the Sheridan and ibinley families , turned the scale in favour of Drury Lane , where it was subsequently represented . * It never could , we think , have succeeded . About this time Mr . Malone attacked the authenticity of the papers , and the bubble so oil burst . But it still serves ' to point a moral , and adorn a tale /
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The Main Princi ples of the Creed and Ethics of the Jews , exhibited in Selections from the Yad Hachazakah of Maimonides ; with a literal English Translation , Sfc . 8 fc . By Hermann Hedwig Bernard . London , Simpkin and Marshall . There should be literal translations from the great Maimonides into every tongue that is spoken in the civilized world , in order that the many , who cannot read him in the original , may have an opportunity
of knowing what comes of mixing up the dreams of an unbased philosophy with the plain truths of a popular revelation ; and of constructing an inferential system of belief and morals out of explicit details which were final in their purpose . Neither error was confinecf to the Jewish doctors : the Christian Fathers philosophized quite as perniciously as they on body and soul , the four elements , the nature and capacities of angels , &c . ; and were very expert at confounding grand principles and trifling details . But the Jewish doctors were as
much worse than the Christian , as their theology presented them witht fewer principles and more details : so that , while the Christians were only wasting their time and talents on ' words without knowledge , * and mixing up extraneous matter with their theology , the Jews were making their theology the root from which has branched out a corrupt creed , and a mean and imperfect system of morals . Their wisest men are now engaged in pruning away this false growth ; but much more lopping will be required before the vine of Judah can bear its genuine and immortal fruit .
We give a specimen of natural philosophy , drawn from the Bible , and consecrated to theology . All the planets and orbs are beings possessed of soul , mind * and understanding . Moreover , they are alive , tliey exist , and know Him who spake , and the universe existed . All of them , in proportion to their magnitude and to their degree , praise and glorify their Creator ,.
just as the angels do ; and in the same way as they know the Holy One ( blessed be He !) , so do they also know themselves ; they also know the angels that are above them . Now the knowledge of the planets and of the orbs is less than the knowledge of the angels , yet it is greater than the knowledge of the sons of men/—p . 97 . The following is a curious specimen of moral computation : —
4 the time when the wicked deeds of a man are balanced against his good deeds , neither the first sin which he committed , nor ther second , is reckoned ; but his sins are reckoned from the third only , and > onward . If his wicked deeds , reckoning from the third and onward ,, are found to amount to more than his good deeds , then those two sins which were not reckoned at first are added , and he becomes account- *
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Critical Notices . —The Main Principles , fyc . 117
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/67/
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