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Sketch of the Life Writings' and Character of John David Michaelis y Professor of Philo * sophyy at Gottingen . ( Concluded from p . 8 . 1
ri ^ HE merits Michaelis can # •• be esti mated but imperfectly by a view of Ins attainments , unless we also consider the difficulties through which he struggled tor acquire them ; nor are the additions which he made
to the theological literature of Europe * the adequate measure of bis services to bis own countrymen . Bnglaiid , France , Germany and Holland are the four
states which furnish the history of biblical criticism . Of these , at the birth of Michaelis , Germany was probably the lowest in the scale , but long before his death she had attained a decided
pre-etfiinence over all the rest Of this change his own genius was the principal cause . Michaelis had to contend not
only with disadvantages of education and tie imperfections of theological knowledge , but with the general backwardness of German literature . He had to kindle
separately and for himself , those fights , whose united " blaze he threw on his peculiar scteiiee . He did fcotfind civil and natural history .
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geography and jurisprudence matured and perfect , and apply the results at which others had arriv « ed to the amelioration of biblical criticism ; although to have done this would have macle an
Sdfa . in its annals . He studied each of them as if he had meant to devote himself to itj and would have been remembered among the improvers of each , if he had not attained such a commanding superiority in that science far whose sake he cultivated the rest .
We have related the chief events of the life of Michaelis , and the order of his principal pu b * lications . We shall now proceed to give a more connected view of his labours . It would be impossible to do this in a manner more
interesting or instructive to the reader , than by translating and abr idging the memoir of Eich . horn ? who of all men is best qualiiied to appreciate the talents of Michaelis . He considers his
character . pfalologeTy a crtttc ^ an interpreter 9 and a theologian ^ according to the fourfold division which the Germans adopt .
< c The oriental languages had beon studied in Germany for a considerable time before the appearance of Michaetis , but on a very narrow and unproductive p ! a € . Orientalists verb slavishly
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY o * TJieologyand General Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/1/
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