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      r . No ; 61 . 144 quarter sheets , and mnety . five half sheets , folio- being loose Mathematical papers . - ^ 62 . 137 half sheets , folio , being loose papers relating to the Disputes with Leibnitz . € 3 . A folio Common-Place Book ; part in Sir Isaac ' s hand . 64 . A bundle of English letters to Sir Isaac , relating to Mathematics . 65 . Fifty-four half sheets , being , loose papers found in the Prineipia *

      66 * A bundle of loose M athematical papers y not Sir Isaac ' s . 67 * A bundle of French and Latin lettersto Sir Isaac * 68 . 136 sheets , folio , relating to Optics * 69 . Tweaty-twd half sheets , folio , De Rationibus Mortuum ( Motuum ?) , &c . ; not in Sir Isaac ' s hand . 70 . Seventy half sheets , folio , being loose Mathematical papers . 71 Thirty-eight half sheets , folio , being loose papers relating to Optics ^

      72 . Forty-seven sheets , folio , being loose papers relating to the Chronology and Prophecies . 73 . Forty half sheets , folio , Procestus ( Prdcessus ?) Mysterii Magni Philosophicus , by W « Yworth ; not in Sir Isaac ' s hand . 74 . Five half sheets , being a letter from Rizetto to Martine t in Sir Isaac ' s hand .

      75 * Forty-one half sheets , being loose papers of several kinds y part m Sir Isaac ' s hand . 76 . Forty half sheets , being loose papers , foul and dirty ; relating to Calculations . 77- Ninety half sheets , folio , being loose Mathematical papers . 78 . 176 half sheets , folio , being loose papers relating to Chronology .

      79 . 176 ditto , being loose papers relating to the Prophecies . 80 . Twelve half sheets , folio , an Abstract of Chronology . ** Ninety-two half sheets , folio , the Chronology . 81 Forty half sheets , folio , the History of the JPropheeies , in ten chapters , and part of eleventh unfinished . 82 . Five small bound books in 12 mo ., the greater part not in Sir Isaac ' s hand , being rough calculations .

      * f May 26 , 1727 , examined froui No . 41 , to 82 inclusive , una judged not fit t <* be printed , except Noif 3 % which i $ agreed to be printed 3 and part of Nos . 61 and 81 , which ar ^ td be reconsidered . - ¦ € C T- PELMET . " € < It is astonishing , " says Dr . Charles Htitton , in his Mathematical Dic tionary , " what care and industry Sir Isaac had employed on the papers

      relating to Chronology , Church History , &c , as on examining the papers themselves , which are in the possession of the family of the Earl of Fortsmouth , it appears that many of them are copies over and over again , often with little or no variation , the whole number being upwards of four thousand sheets , in folio , or eight reams of folio paper , besides the bound books , &c > in this catalogue , of which the number of sheets is not mentioned . "

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      Jan . I , 1824 . PipfHE books of Isaiah , Jeremiah , JL Ezekiel , Daniel , and the rest of the Old Testament Prophets , consist of separate prophecies , delivered at different times , and relating to events

      which have na < necessary connexion with each other . The division into chapters is a work of comparatively recent date , and is of no authority whatever . Had this division been judiciously made , we should have been able in most cases , without any great

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      Mr * J&hUaceV * Remarks on Isaiah he . 6 , 7 . "Z \

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      difficulty , to see the scope and design of each separate prophecy ; but , as it is , it serves only to perplex and confound the reader- Yet , in spite of this and of the still more provoking negligence of the Jews , who , when

      they Collected the writings of the prophets into separate books , called after the nannies of their respective authors ,, did it apparently without any regard to distinction of subject 4 > r accuracy of arrangement ; we are enabled , in : many cases , by internal evidence , to

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/21/