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    the King of Denmark to explore Arabia Felix , of whose travels

    Niebuhr , the sole survivor of the Company , has left so interesting an account . The plan of the expedition was originally suggested by Michaelis to Count Bernstorff , and when it was matured , he was

    requested to draw up a set of questions to guide them in their researches . The knowledge of natural history , geography , oriental languages . and manners , which these questions displayed , astonished the world , who found that the author was a German

    professor , chiefly occupied with theological lectures , and who had been accustomed to regard theology as a mysterious art , the professors of which had as little affinity with other literary men in their pursuits .

    as with the world at large in their habits and opinions . Forskal [ or Forskolj and Von Haven , two of the travellers , had befen pupils of Michaelis , had learnt Arabic from him , and had often heard him

    point out , in the course of his lectures , the defects of our present knowledge of the East : none could , therefore , be better qualified for understanding his queries . Unfortunately the copy was not completed when they left Europe ,

    and though Bernstorff sent it after them with all possible expedition to Egypt , it did not arrive till the travellers were at Tranquebar , a ft or nprfnrtnintT tKi *» ir firet- inurnpv

    through Arabia , when Forskal [ or Forskol ] and Von Haven were no , mere * . - ¦ * ¦ " \ ¦ - "——— ; ' * In 1766 Michaelis was visited by Dr . Franklin , witfc whom he had a rcmattubk conversation on the subject of America * Michaelis observed , that when he was in England , he thought that the Americans would , ere long , re ~ volt from the mother country ; and that

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    In 1769 appeared his'translation of the book of Job , with notes for the use of the unlearned . This

    was the first part of a complete translation of the Bible , excepting the Song of Songs , which he deemed not canbnical . The last part was not published till 1 79 % * after his death . The style of the

    translation is harsh and inelegan t * The notes , though said to be for the jise of the unlearned , as not being critical , contain a vast mass of curious and useful information .

    Da the , whose translation , with notes , of the Old Testament is known in this country * has beea much indebted to Michaelis . In 1770 he published his * Mosaic Law / ' which his countrymen regard as one of his most original

    and valuable works . He possessed not only a very extensive knowledge of history and jurisprudence ; but an intimate acquaintance with eastern peculiarities of manners and ideas , so necessary to explain the views of the Jewish lawgiver , and enable us to calculate the

    effect of his institutions . In 1771 Michaelis began his " Oriental - ische und Exegeti $ che Bibliothek , " a periodical publication , which contains a treasure of ori

    entaland biblical learnirig , and which , from the constant references made to it by all the German theological writers , is absolutely necessary to those who study their vforks . It was continued tilt

    J 7 $ 5 , in 23 volumes ,, and was resumed in 1786 , and continued , in 8 volumes , to 1791 * under tlte

    he thought so still , though those to whom he mentioned hi ? opinion treated it with ridicule . Franklin replied , "that such a revolt ivai impossible ^ for that the principal towns in North America , Boston , New-York and Philadelphia , could bf laid in ruins by an English fleet /'

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    ig Sketch of the Life of Michadij .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/6/