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Art . VI . A Concipq View of the Suecession of Sacred TMtrdtote ^ in a Ckrojiofcgical t Arrangement of Authors and theit fVork * j from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters ^ to the Year of oitr . Lord , \ 345 . By Adam Clarke , A . M . ^ 12 mo . pp » 312 . London , 1807 *
The " author of . this work , Mr . Adam Clark * , is already known to the public , not d i sad vantage - ously , by a bibliographical dictionary , published in successive volumes , and lately brought to a close . The object of that work was to furnish an account of the
chief editions of the most valuable and curious books in various languages , intermixed with short critical observations and occasional anecdotes .. It displayed an extensive acquaintance with subjects of bibliography ; at the same
time , m some parts , owing pro - bably to want of leisure , <* , circumstance which may easily be inferred from the known engage - ments of the author , it was not executed with all that accuracy which is desirable in performances of that nature .
The present is a work somewhat similar in ensign , and requiring similar qualifications for its exi ecution . It proposes to give an account of ecclesiastical writers ,
m chronological succession , from the earliest period tilt the invention of printing , containing short accounts of their lives , catalogue s of their writings ,, analyses of some of their principal works , with notices of -the Jirst and the be&t editions of each author , nnd of
the best translations which have appeared in the English language . 'I-he present volume extends to < A . D . 34 c 5 ; another it is supposed , will complete the design . The articles which we have particularly examined , appear to
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have been executed with considerable accuracy . P . 39 .. . .. The account of the pretended Arbteas , as is well known , is that . « yi « r persons were deputed from each tribe for the translation of the ; { i ^ brew . scriptures into Greek , in all seventy-two , * whence thp name of , the version . P . 50- The account
given of Mangey ' s Philo , if meant to describe the exterior splencjouj : of the edition , is true ; if intended to relate to the critical qualir fications ' of the editor , is ,
consj derably over-rated ; learned men both at home and abroad , have complained much of the faults of that edition . r The convergent edition of Pfeiffeiy might h ^ ve been mentioned . „ P « . 101 . The memory of Napier , the inveutor
ot logarithms , is somewhat iws : ulted by the application of , tk £ vulgar proverb , < € Ne sutor ultra crepidam , " because he made a computation from the book of -Revel a ^ tion , of the duration , of the world ^ which time ha § disproved .
The fate of other calculators oi future events from tbe sa < me data should hav-e saved him from this reproach . P . 10 p . The editioa of the apostolical fathers by Cotelerius should have been roentipu * ed . P . 2 S 0 , 281 . "The editions pf different works of Eusebius by
11 ^ "Stephens , contain only the Greek . The subject , on which Mr . Clarke enters most largely into critical disquisition is that of the notorious text , 1 ^ ohn , v . 7 , whiph he honestly , though witfy some
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/44/
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