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the curious lay now first published from the Exeter MS . called " the Song of the Traveller . " The remainder of the volume is occupied by an Appendix , which owes its arrangement and compilation to the Editor , and consists of materials not arranged by the Professor , but intended for the
work , and in part published by him in other forms . This portion of the volume contains , 1 . The Battle of Finsborougft . 2 . Specimens from pieces to which we have before alluded as bearing the name of Ccedmon , and by some supposed ( we think without foundation ) to be the work of a different person of that name from the Coedmon of Rede . These consist of the
speech of Satan ^ a description of the deluge , and another of the overthrow of the Egyptians in the Red Sea . The translations given have considerable poetic jnerit , but would perhaps be both more interesting and useful if given with more close adherence both to the words and measure of the original . The speech of Satan is curious from its resemblance in many
parts , and in its general scope , to the parallel passage in Milton . The probability is , that a species of drama or mystery on the subject has been current from the earliest age , and has had its influence upon , and been more or less varied or paraphrased by , many successive writers , who thus preserve a degree of similarity not to be distinctly accounted for by reference
to any one immediate common original . 3 . We have next a series of specimens , chiefly on religious subjects , from the highly curious MS . given by Bishop Leofric to the Cathedral of Exeter , about the time of the Norman conquest , and still preserved . 4 . The volume proceeds with selections from King Alfred ' s metrical paraphrase of the poetical portion of Boethius , " De Consolatione Philosophic ; " and , 5 , concludes with extracts from a Norman Saxon poem on death , presenting a specimen of our language and poetry at the latest period at which they could be fairly called Saxon .
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Art . V . — Simon de Nantuct , ou le Marchand Forain . Par M . L . P . de Jussieu . Ouvrage qui a obtenu le priw fbndS par un Anonyme , en faveur du meiUeur livre destinS < fc servir de lecture auw habit ans des villes et des compagnes . Paris . '
At the instigation of an unknown benefactor , the " Socie * te * pour 1 ' Instruction e * le * mentaire , " some time ago offered a reward of a thousand franc * to the writer of the best elementary book , *¦' * wherein should be developed with simplicity , precision , and judgment , the
principles of the Christian religion , of morality , and of social conduct : which should furnish a directory for the conduct of men in all conditions of life , and give instruction respecting the relative duties of parents , children , husbands , citizens , subjects , masters , and servants—
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which should demonstrate the happiness resulting from the fulfilment of these duties—should farther shew the advau - tages to France of upholding the sacred principle of legitimacy , and the blessings of the constitutional charter ; and imbue the people ' s minds with a sense of the necessity of submission to the laws , in order that the blessings of liberty and
property might be universally enjoyed . " To fulfil this brief , simple , and laudable object , ( which it was farther stipulated must be accomplished , if at all , in the compass of two hundred and fifty pages , ) Simon de Nantua was written and approved . Its author obtained the Society ' s prize , and dedicated his book to the Duke de Rochefoucauld . Thus
ushered into the world , under the aus * pices of some of the greatest men in France , especially bearing the official testimony to its merits of the Abbe * Gaul-
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Vfiitical Notice ) 407
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/47/
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