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middle of the next . * I am not aware of any English translation arranged upon this rational plan
of divisions before that extracted from the Paraphrase of Doddridge , and published in 1765 . Give- me leave with reference to the proposed translation of the
Bible by Mr . Wellbeloved , to which I have already referred , to express some anxiety as to the progress of the subscription , and to know whether and when we may expect the work to appear . BIBLICUS .
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .
No . CLXXXVII . Boy-Bishop . At Norwich and many other places in England before the Reformation , it was customary for boys , the choristers chiefly where
there were choirs ^ to choose a boy-bishop ( barne or bairn bishop ) on St . Nicolas Da 3 , in honour of that Saint . St . Nicolas , says the Popish Festival , while he lay in his cradle , fasted Wednesdays
* On eprouve tous les jours combien la lecture du Noveau Testament de Jesus Christ est utile aux Fideles , lors meme que pour Tintelligence du Texte ils iTont point d ' autre secours que le Texte meme In et medite avec tin cceur simple et docile . —La distinction de vcrsets ne paroit d'aucune
utilite pour la plupart des JLecteurs ; et elle n ' est pas sans inconvenient pour quelques-uns . On croit que chaque verset a nn sens fini ; en sorte ' que , soit en lksant , soit en apprenant par cceur , on s'arrete souvent a la fin d ' un verset , lors qu'il faudroit , pour terminer le sens , continuer de lire jusqu ' au milieu du verset suiyant . " Avert&s ,
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and Fridays , —sucking but &nce * day on those days ; and , therefore adds the Festival Children don him worship before all other saints From St . Nicolas Day to Innocents ' day at night , the boy . bishop bore the name of a bishop , and the state and habit too ,
wearing the mitre and the pastoral staff , and the rest of the pontifical attire ; naj 7 , and reading the holy offices . While he went his pro .
cession , he was much feasted and treated b y the people , as , it seems , much valuing his blessing . Which made the citizens so fond of keeping this holiday .
( See Strype . Ecc Mem . Ill , 206 . ) There are instances on record of good and grave folk bequeath - ing robes and mitres to the Bey Bishops !
Dean Colet ( Life ofi by Knight 8 \ o . 1724 > . p , 362 ) , the Founder of St . Paul ' s School , orders , in his body of statutes , dated in 1512 , t hat all his scholars " shall , every Childermas daye come to Paulis Church and hear the childe
bysshop sermon ; and after be at the hygh masse , and each of them offer a penny to the childe bysshop , and with them the maisters and surveyors of the scole /'
See Letters from the Bodltian Library , Spc . 2 vols ( in 3 . ) 8 vo . 1813 . Vol . I . pp . 302—304 . Amongst one sect of modern Christians , there seems to have been a disposition of late to revive the Boy-Bishop .
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No . CLXXXVIIL Reward of Loyalty . Charles , Duke of Burgundy , overcome by the Switzcrs , swam
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690 Gleanings . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 690, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/30/
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