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.{ * j ¦ REVIEW. <€ Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame." — Pope.
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s it— , Tke Notes , fyc , to Uelon ' s Pilgrmiiage * VERY" important portion of the A work before us is yet to be reviewed : its English editor has performed more in its behalf than the act of presenting his Countrymen with
a faithful and spirited translation of it- to his preface and his notes we have hitherto only adverted , and we shall now consider them with the attention which the learning and tbe judgment that they manifest will
eminently claim . In our remarks on Helon ? s Wall-Jahrt nach Jerusalem , as it came from the pen of Strauss , we pointed out some deficiencies and blemishes that seemed to be effects of the haste
with which it was prepared for the public eye . A more capital omission , a more striking inconvenience , is thus represented by the translator : f " The work which is now offered to the public , appeared in Germany in 1820 , unaccompanied by notes or even
references to Scripture . The author alleged , as a reason for this omission , that the majority of readers would not concern themselres about authorities , and that the few who did might easily find them . He was , however , soon convinced , by the expression of public opkriota , that he had underrated the curiosity of the
former class , as much as he had overrated the patience of the latter ; and promised ;}; to remedy the deficiency . As the work had heen partly translated into Dutch and illustrated with notes , by the Professors Vanderpalm § and Clarisse , he purposed to add his own notes to theirs , when their translation should be completed . "
Whether Strauss has even yet fulfilled his design , we know not : however , we are not the less grateful for the services of his English translator , who adds ,
* Mon . Repos . XXI . pp . 226—230 ; 291-297 , 351-355 . t Vol . I . xiv . t Vol . IV . of the original , at the end , § See the Christian E-vatniner [ New ker ies ] , Vol . I . 239 . '
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< It was my ongiual intention to hare waited for the appearance of this appendix ; but as four years have now elapsed , * and I have been unable to hear any tidings of it from Germany , I thought it better to endeavour to supply the defect . Having no clue whatever to guide me to the sources of the author ' s statements , it
may happen that I have not assigned the precise authority which he had in view ; and , in justice to him , the reader will not conclude , that all which is not fortified by a reference is destitute of a warrant from antiquity , but only that the passage in which it is found has not occurred to me / 'f "
We shall accompany the editor through the remainder of his preface $ and shall reserve for another number our examination of his notes and illustrations .
He gives a brief statement of the sources whence the materials of this work of Strauss have been derived ,, } and naturally and properly touches on the peculiar difficulty of his author ' s undertaking :
< The Jews were entire strangers to those kinds of literary production , in which the living manners of a people are preserved to posterity : literature among them was devoted to higher objects than comedy , satire , and ethical description . The history of our Saviour , it is true ,
carries us into the very bosom of domes * tic life among his contemporaries ; $ nd the knowledge which we thus acquire , is peculiarly valuable , from the stamp of truth which is impressed on every part of it . But if we learn much from this source , there is still more of which we are left ignorant . " §
Next to the books of Scripture , the writings of Josephus may be consulted with advantage for Jewish antiquities . From the works of Philo we receive less aid than might have been expected . Among the Christian fathers , Jerome , who was long resident
* In 1824 . t Pref . xiv . &c . XThe materials of the work are evidently distinct from the writer ' s particular statements . § Translator ' s Pref . xv .
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.{ * J ¦ Review. ≪€ Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame." — Pope.
. { * j ¦ REVIEW . < € Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " — Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/31/
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