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    agreement with the members occasioned his resignation in 1770 , from which time till his death he had no connection with thenu In 1750 he published the first edition of his Introduction to the New Testament . This was his favourite work ; he laboured

    incessantly to enlarge and improve it , and his own maturer * thoughts and the discoveries of his contemporaries furnished him with so much new matter , that the 4 th edition , which Marsh translated , is a totally different book from the first . There is no instance on

    record , we believe , of a book retaining the same title , and being so completely re * written in successive editions : the fact shows , in a very striking light , the progression of our author ' s knowledge ,., the imperfection of this branch of sacred criticism in the

    middle of the last century , and its rapid advances during the latter half of it . In 1758 he published an edition of Lowth ' s Prelections , with notes and Epimetra , one of his works which first made him known in

    England , in consequence of its being reprinted at the Clarendon Press . No two men could undertake the same work with more different qualifications than Michaelis and Lowth . The bishop

    was a man of refined taste , but formed entirely upon classical models ; he was an elegant writer of Latin prose , and a ready composer of Latin verse : but knowing no oriental language except the Hebrew , and not being familiar with the manners and customs of

    the East 9 he judged of the sacred writers by a classical standard and European ideas- Michaelis , on the dther hand , had very little

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    taste , wrote stiff Latin , and had never received a good classical education . But he was an accomplished orientalist ; he could discover in the kindred dialects the meaning of an obscure Hebrew word , which Lowth would alter by conjecture ; he could understand the local allusions of the sacred writers , and estimate their merits more rationally than by comparing them with Greek and Latin authors . His notes were

    therefore a most valuable supplement to Lowth s Prelections , and both together continue to be the best introduction that we have to

    Hebrew poetry . In 1760 he gained the prize of the Academy of Berlin by his essay 4 * on the influence of opinions on language and language on opinions . " This work intro - duced him to the notice ^ f Frederic the Great and D'Alembert . tn the same year he published his u Compendium Theologias Dogmaticae . " Although not professor

    of theology , he had lectured on it for several years , and was accused of being a Calvinist . The orthodoxy of his Compendium , however , past unquestioned in Germany ; but the University of Upsal discovered it to be unsound , and confiscated a Swedish

    translation of iL Eighteen years afterwards , the Chancellor of this University , abhamed of its illiberal ] ty 9 persuaded the King to bestow the Order of the Northern Star on the Professor , as a national compensation for the injury he had sustained .

    Nothing contri buted more-to raise the fame of MichaSlis throughout Europe , than the questiom which he addressed irt the year 1762 , to the learned men , appointed by

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    Sketch of the Life of Michaelis . 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/5/