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    « ver ; but wherever a By thing depends ^ M ph Critical interpretation or various readings , the original is referred to , and is compared with the versions , and with what commentators have written for

    ifs illustration . In this way , seven or ej ^ Trt ho u rs in every week are occupied ¦ in \ he lecture-room , besides whal the private preparation of the student requires- The fifth year is chiefly derbted to the reac ] ing ' of the New Testament , with the same scrupulous attention to every thing which can elucidate its meaning , without ^ A : posing any doctrinal interpretation ; but as it is of in the utio

    the ^ i % hcst importance insti t n of j * Christian minister , that he be thoroughly acquainted with this part of the sacred volume ,, the whole , or nearly the whole , is read over in the ori ginal . We have purposely confined ourselves to a statement of the means employed

    to give the students educated in the institution in question , a critical knowledge of the Scriptures , since it is to this that Mr . W . ' s charge refers . And we now request the reader to turn back to the passage , marked in italics in our quotation from him , and to say , if he ever

    saw a charge which more violently recoiled on the head of the accuser , than that which Mr . W . has so unadvisedly advanced . The fling at the Dissenters for their deficiency in oriental literature is the more strange , as we meet with the following passage at p . 76 . " It is sometimes asked , what useful purpose

    is promoted by the professorships of Hebrew / and Arabic established in both Universities , when rio lectures are deliverecj upon the sulysct ?* To this we re that thougji lectures are occas ? pi ^ a Hy read on these topics , as is the case with the present Arabic professpr

    at C ^ nibric | ge , * yet the design of these * o $ titutions is not regular ! v to teach the c ^ wept 3 ojf the languages in question , which isi ^ sterlfected b y pfVate t ^ ti ' on ^ out to sinovi } encQuragemept to the

    pursuit or an object whicji presents but few attractions ^ and to the critical exa [ $ pation of tfyose ^ oriental dialects , w tyfh jvquJcI otherwise perhaps be V $$ ^^ ctea , if not Utterly logC ^ fo the cmtious fact here sta te d * *? f } uU uip present Arafbfo professor

    4 Tho ^ jh H e brew is co ^ sidejeed a ^ a 22 ^ aWfV ^ 4 w . ' for a ^ Uow ^ ip in 1 ^^ ? fP ? < H d ^ ? & % c ^ nstitufya a 8 ttM ^ t ^ » te * . ^ . w ifwW »* wf ^ r . . ^ rj ^^ r . .-

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    is sometimes read as a lecture to tjie under-gradnates , the reasoning of this passage is worthy the attention of our readers . The title of these oriental scholars to the emoluments © f their pflices , arises from the unpopularity , of oriental studies ; of course thev would

    forfeit this title by doing anything to render them more easy or more attractive . The paradise of placemen ia surely aft appointment which hot only allows inactivity but makes it a

    condition . Silent , however , as the operation of these oriental professorships is , it is not the less powerful on that account ; not the knowledge only of the oriental dialects , but the dialect * themselves , Mr .

    W . assures us , would speedily be lost / did not a gentleman at Oxford and another at Cambridge receive salaries for doing nothing to diffuse them . Certainly nothing can equal the cogency of our author ' s reasoning , unless'it-be the accuracy of his style . The deficiency in classical learning , which Mr . W . alleges as another source of the heresies of the Socinians , we are

    not inclined to deny ; but we wonder that a Cambridge man should suppose it a necessary consequence , that 11 we had more learning we should have more orthodoxy . If the learning of Porson and his orthodoxy * together could be transferred to us , we fear we should be

    still at a lamentable distance from Mr . W . ' s standard . In Porsoft * s days It had not becoi > ie the fashion of the great scholars of Cambridge ( foi ^ th ere is a fashion in kee p ing or laying down a conscience ) to affect a political adherence to the church as by lawVestablished . On the other hand , there is

    a species of learning which" we fehoilld be sorry to purchase by the renunciation of cominoii sense , in applying it to the interpretation of the scriptures . Of this sacrifice we might produce numberless examples , bi * t while Bishop

    * You may say that his reli g ious creed resembled that of Dr . Samuel Clarke . You are at liberty to think so . Was Dr . Clarke not a Christian ?"*—Kidd ' a Imperfect Outline of the Life of Richard Porson , prefixed to his Miscellaneous , Tracts abd Criticisms , p . xxx .. II may be intetfeating to our readers to be ipfprine < J # nt ^ tf authority 0 / the

    sa ^ ae i ^ tiina « U fi ie ^ d > , tb ^ Por §^ u , thougJi np ^ ' ^ ^ r Jffrrti GTCgpty $ m ?* I-et-^ : ? r wj jftmeA s ? , * & ?>*>*** + ** - pecied tf yji , ^ W Ft % ] KK 8 ^^ ^ P < ft tbej ^< e | i | rtfcleV | S IM ' ji VppUf $ f ° l ) $ ^ *

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    Hippiew . —Wiaimwright on the ^ Pursuits of Cambridge . 407

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/35/