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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS. - I
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Tb& ckaraGter of . the mendicant Dervishes of Asia Minor has been already seen . J Yet the Santons and Sheiks , - whose exhortations make most impression in the moscks , are the superiors of these
fanatics ; and a sermon preached by one of the former in St . Sophia , was the origin of the disgraceful expedition , undertaken by Sultan Solyman against Maha > in the year 1564 . £ Attempts have been made to
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Versions of the 5 § th Psalm . Sir , Aug . 4 , 1812 . Leaking lately into a Review of a version of the Psalms in your last volume , ' [ V . vii . p . 31 $ )] ' I
r £ collec {;^< j a comparison , with which I once amused myself , of three different versions , of the 5 tyth Psalm , composed at very cfifle , r , ent periods : That Psd , lm contaiosy . an verses 6 , 7 , 14 and 15 ,
son * e expressions , the sense of which it is rather difficult to con . vey in translated verse and yet escape ludicrous associations . You will , I think , agree with me that Merrick has eminently succeeded , especiall y when compared with his forerunners .
Was" God . A man reminded him , that < MJC who had called himself a prophet had been killed . " They were rights said the other , ii for I did not give him Ms commission : he was no prophet of mflie . "—PaVoles Remarquables des Ori-« &taux , Galand .
4 vLet * er XXXVI . p . 649 , of this vo lumc ( Hothouse . ) ^ hfi 9 ticpj&w ia Cour du Grand Seig * W » ¦ * . Mft /
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abolish the institution , but the Ja ^ nissaries still retain eight Dervishes of the order of Bek-Tash , as chaplains to the army ; and the people of Constantinople run in crowds to amuse themselves ( for no other
motive can be assigned to them ) atlhe exhibitions of the turniogand of the howlina Dervishes , to which all strangers are carried , as to the theatre or other places of entertainment in the cities of Christendom .
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Sternhold and Hopkins , about 1550 , thus render the verses : At night they run and seek about , Like dogs they howl also , And all the city quite throughout , From place to place they go .
They speak of me with mouth alway , But in their lips are swords : They have contriv e d my death , and say There ' s none doth hear our words . At evening they return apace , As dogs they grin and cry : Throughout the 9 treets in every place , They run about and spy .
They seek about for meat alway , But let them not be fed : Nor find a house wherein they may Be boJd to put their head . The Psalms of David in Meeter , ISmo .
The second specimen is from Manton , Owen , Poole , Calarny and others , in 1673 , recommended by the signatures " of Nonconformist ministers of' that time
who thus close a prefatory Address' to the rendtr * * . Diviri& composures should be rep ! S& £ c » ftted to usia A fit tr ^ la ^/ , Jek ^ wo waul David in JJavi 4 * v ^ lv his holy' < ext £ tffes arfc ^ deiivered ^ in »
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" Versions of the 5 Qth Psalm . ' 637
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/13/
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