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Eichhorn on the Book of Genesis. (Continued from p. 491.) § 418.
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verdant Cambridge meadows ; beyond is the Church of Twickenham , where are deposited the remains of Pope ; behind me , in the Church of Richmond , are interred Thomson and Wakefield ; on the left is Ham House ,
once the resort of Dry den and Gay ; and to the right stood the Priory of West Sheen , the residence of Sir William Temple , with his visitant Swift , whilst in the centre the superb palace of Richmond used to rear its turrets , where Queen Elizabeth expired in all
the agony of grief , as described m Hume ' s History of England . How truly classical are these reminiscences \ But I must check my pen : these topics are already delineated 5 n my Windsor Touristy together with Pope ' s Villa . Strawberry Hill and Hampton Court . J . EVANS .
P . S . The death of Thomson was sudden and unexpected . In Johnson ' s Lives of the Poets appears a Letter
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addressed to his sister , dated 1747 , the year previous to his decease , in which he meditates a visit to his friends in Scotland ; and alluding to the loss of a beloved relative , he thus expresses himself in a manner equally
creditable to his feelings and piety : * ' She is happy , while we must toil a little longer here below . Let us , however , do it cheerfully and gratefully , supported by the pleasing hope of meeting- yet again on a safer shore , where to recollect the storms and
difficulties of life will not perhaps be inconsistent with that blissful state /' Far different was the devout author of the Seasons from some of the poets of the present day . His superior genius did not spurn at the consolations of Christianity .
Vermiculus will accept my thanks for his interesting remarks on the Works of Thomson , recently communicated to the Repository .
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jEichhorn ' s Account of the Book of Genesis . 533
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II . The greatest Part of the Book of Genesis consists of Fragments from tw& distinct Historical Jrorks , as may be proved by the Repetitions contained in it , its want of Uniformity in Style 9 and the Peculiarities ivhich characterize each Record . 1 . Of the Repetitions which occur in the Book of Genesis .
FEW portions of the book of Genesis are of the nature before described ; on the contrary , its general internal structure bespeaks it to be a work compiled from two historical records , fragments of which are
variously introduced , being sometimes blended together , and at other times following in regular succession , and being , upon the whole , but rarely interrupted by the insertion of unconnected pieces of the stamp above alluded to . On different occasions the same things are related twice . Thus , in the accounts of the flood , ( Gen . vi . vii . viii . ix ., ) God remarks twice
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on the wickedness of mankind , fo r which reason he twice decrees its destruction : Noah's innocence and integrity are twice asserted ; he is twice commanded to collect different animals into his ship , and twice are we informed that he did so . After conveying whatever was destined to survive the deluge on board , the waters rise , his ship floats , and every thing is destroyed : all this , including- the statement that , since the time of Noah , the world has not been depopulated by any succeeding flood , is related twice . For the satisfaction of the reader , the repetitions here alluded to , are subjoined in opposite columns :
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Eichhorn On The Book Of Genesis. (Continued From P. 491.) § 418.
Eichhorn on the Book of Genesis . ( Continued from p . 491 . ) § 418 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/13/
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