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    nere" ? Farther , when attached by the Paris divines on the subject of his Testament , and required to justify some of his readings by tb § production of some MS . which contained them , he replies , ' Non posse fieri , quod non ujtium esset sed quindecim , " the difference being occasioned by his some- * tinies reckoning the Complutensian as a codex , sometimes not .

    itiat it is difficult to reconcile with one another all the statements which Robert Stephens majcje respecting his MS& . is true ; but Crito justly observes , $ at notjiing vaguely said at the distance of several years can be allowed ] to weigh against his own distinct declaration in the preface to his tjiird edition . Thus , in the context of the passage wfyich we have quoted from his . answer

    to the divines pf Paris , he says , he has returned his fifteen MSS , to the King ' s library , though in his preface he professes ( o have received only eight from it , But then he had an evident motive for representing all his MSS as gone completely out of his own power , as this afforded the best reason for refusing to gratify an inquisitorial curiosity .

    Another question naturally arises in Mr . Huyshe ' s extraordinary hypothec sis , What is become of that valuable set of fifteen MSS . which served as tfre basis pf R . Stephens' text ? Suppose that half of them contained the Catholic epistles and the text of the Heavenly Witnesses . Where are they } Have they been " burned , or been eaten by the worms , or been gnawed in pieces by the rajs , or been rotted with the damps , or been destroyed by those pestilent feljows the Arians ? " It is true we know not what is become of all which R . Stephens actually did use , ( excepting those which are still irj

    tJ > e Royal library , the Codex Bezse , and another which tlie sagacity of Dr IVJaf sh detected a £ Cambridge . But then these , as agreeing with all pthe ? MSSf in rejecting the verse , pass in the crowd ; whereas the MSS , of Mr . jfluysbe , as , by thp hypothesis they contain it , wouk } require neither collatiorj nor ajgebra . to establish their identity , but would prove themselves , to be th § lost treasures , by simple inspection at \ John v . 7 , which inspection all the MSS . in JEurope have undergone ; but all are alike ignorant of the Heavenly Witnesses .

    Confident in the truth of his own theory as if it had beep established by demonstration , Mr . Huyshe does not scruple to use the most opprobrious and contemptuous language of al ( the critics , on both sides of the question , whp have missed tf > e extraordinary discovery which he has made , " JVJr * Butler teljs us , with u nblushing front , " p . 9 ; ^ Pprson is gui |( y of a wretched ^ btle ty and falters with us in a dpuble meaning , " pp , 46 , 51 : an < J all whq

    have thought that Stephens had only one set pf sixteen MSS * , are u a set of creatures , " " intensely gtppid , " and with " addled braios ,. " Glad as ** they that have the rule over us" would be to find any good plea ' * for not cutting put 1 Jpljn v . 7 from the authorized version , " we are sure they will be heartily ashamed of JVJr . Huyshe , and we expect , though of this we do not speajv with confidence , tfia ); even the Bishop of Sajjsbury will exclaim , Non tali cw&ilio *

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    Art . IV . —fixe Forest Sanctuary , and other Poems , B y Mrs . Hemans . 8 vo . London .

    This certainly may be called the age of poetry ; or , at least , an age m which more volumes of poetical eifusipns , good , bad , and indifferent , are brought before the public , than at any other period . Whether , now that the market is so abufttfantly furnished , the stock of really good articles is

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    Review .- ~ Afr ?* Henrnns Poem * 331

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/43/