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    land , that the variations of the Hebrew JV 1 SS . affected nothing but the vowel-points , and Michael is ,

    searching only tor such variations , according to his father ' s instructions , overlooked the more important differences whichr Kennicott ' s collations disclosed . He

    heard Lowth deliver his second prelection on Hebrew poetry , but he formed no personal acquaintance wilh him .

    Michaelis' visit to England was the memorable aera of his life . Nothing that we have hitherto seen of his talents and acquirements , prepares us to believe that he would stand at the head of the

    literati of Germany . 4 c He left the University , " says Eichhorn , c with a head full of false opinions , and very sparingly provided with the qualifications of a theologian and commentator .

    Nothing but the sense of his own deficiencies , and an energetic determination to supply them , not only by the acquisition of the learning which he wanted , but by a strict examination of his own

    opinions and habits of thinking , could have enabled him to surmount the difficulties of his situation / ' This change does not , however , appear to have taken place during bis actual residence in England . It was too radical ,

    laborious and voluntary to be the work of l ^ menths , or the sudden Tesult of a change of society and reading . But he acquired a complete acquaintance with our lan - guage , and carried back to the continent some of our best

    theological writers , whom he closely studied for several years after his return . He left England in 1742 , and began to teach history and some of the eastern languages in

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    the University of Halle . The orthodox members of il soon perceived a change in him , and thanked heaven for their deliverance , when he removed in 174 . 5 to Gottingen .

    Gottingen was not infected by the theological prejudices which reigned at Halle . It was adorned by Mosheim , Haller and J , M « . Gesner , who admitted Michaelis

    into their friendship , and from whom , especially from Haller , he received very important assistance in the improvement of his intellectual character . For some time

    after his settlement at Gottingen ,. he seem ^ to have been engaged in the study of the Bible with his English guides . In 1746 he published Benson on James , in Latin ,

    with notes of bis own , and in 1747 , Peirce on the Hebrews ^ and issued proposals , biii without encouragement , for a translation of Hallett's notes * As he

    advanced , he became less satisfied with his models , and in 1750 published a translation and com * mentary of his own on the shorter epistles of Paul . In this wprk he abandoned the method of

    paraphrasing , as destroying ttje identity of the author , and tending to conceal , both from the writer ahd the reader , their igtiorance of his true meaning . Instead of it , he gave a literal translation with copious

    notes . He removed to Gottingen at first only as a private lecturer in the University . In 1746 he was appointed extraordinary , and ih

    1750 ordinary , Professor of Philosophy . In 1761 he was cbosen Secretary to the newly-instituted Society of Sciences at Gottingen ; and in 176 $ , on the death of Gesner , President . Some dis-

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    4 Sketch of the Life of Michaelis .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/4/