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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHT.
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MONTHLY REPOSITORY OP • i \ i ¦ ' . i Ifkeology and General Literature . ¦
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No . XXXU-3 AUGUST . [ Vol . III .
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T > ICHARD HURD , whose JtV name has been long connected with the literature and theology of his time , was born about the year 1721 , at ** Penford , in the parish of Tetenhall , in Staffordshire */' where his father wa $ a farmer . His very early education he received from Anthony Black wall ,-master of the Free Grammar School of Market Bosworth , the
once celebrated author of th * " Sacred Classics illustrated and defended f . " Blackwall , who was well fitted to discern and encourage a scholar ' s literary inclinations , died when his pupil was only nine years of age * He came next under the tui ~ tion of < c the Rev . Mr . Budworth , head master of the grammar school at Brewood , " where
* Such is the account of Bishop Hurd * s birth-place , given in Shaw ' s Histoiy © f Staffordshire , 1798 * i . i 80 , and since in Nichols ' s Leicestershire , iii . 1071 , though in the Obituaries of all the Magazines , he is said to have been ' * a native of Congreve , in the parish of Penkridge , Staffordshire . " f BlackwallV theory respecting the classical purity of the Greek ^ Testament has been exploded of late years , even by orthodox critics , especially by the late Dr . Campbell , in the ^ " Preliminary Dissertations" to his Translation of the Four Gospels . Yet formerly , *• such was the reputation of Mr . BlackwalPs performance , that the two volumes were translated ; into ^ Latin and published at Lcipsic in the year 1734 . " Biog . Brit . 2 nd Ed . v . 18 , Note . Blackwall was a highly orthodox divine * He detected the heresy of Locke ' s Paraphrase , kept no terms with Sociniahs x > r Unitarians of any description , and was a ^ firm believer in the three heavenly witnesses . Yet he has the merit of early contending for the propriety of a new Etoglish version of the scriptures . K [ c says that « c innumerable instances might be itt ^ dc of faulty translations of the divine original , whick cither weaken its sense , or debase and tarnish the beauty of . its language ; " and that the *< unprejudiced must acknowledge that there was less occasion to change the old version into the * , jpreaent , than to change the present into a new » ne . " Sac . Class , i , 419—4 ^ 4 . ri . xv . xxi . a 6 o . Note .
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MEMOIR OF THE LATE RICHARD HURD , D . D . BISHOP OF WORCESTER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/1/
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