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To the Editor . Sir , Clapton , Nov . 19 , 1828 . The accompanying letters can scarcely fail to interest many of your readers . They are copies which I made , a few years since , from the originals in the British Museum , and I have no reason to suppose they were ever printed . The first ten letters , including one reply from Dr . Ward , form part of a collection ( No . 6210 , among the additions to Ayscougfcs MSS . ) in a folio volume , indorsed , " Letters of learned men to Professor Ward , ex-legato Joh . Ward . " The letter to Dr . Birch is copied from one of the numerous volumes of his correspondence { Ayscough , 4312 ) . To the whole I have annexed some explanatory notes . No other letters of Dr . Lardner ' s appear among the MSS . in the Museum . J . T . RUTT .
No . I . Dear Sir , Hoxton , May 2 , 1727 * I return you many thanks for the use of Van Dale , f whom I have read over , though not with the care which such a variety of difficult matters requires . I apprehend we agree pretty well in our notions about ^ -parvi y ^ , I did not suppose the Captain of the Temple had any military power , j though , perhaps , I have not sufficiently guarded against that meaning ; captain and oificeV being , generally , military terms in our language . In one thing I differ from Van Dale at present . Speaking of the High Priests , Scribes , &c , be says , pp . 420 , 421 , " Unde et priorem ob causam appellabantur Kovg-iaha . ^ I apprehend the Kov ^ coha was the Roman Cohort , Out of which the Jewish priests and captains might take some for a particular purpose . See Joseph , de Bel . B . ii . c . xv . § 6 . I am , Sir , Your unfeigned friend and humble servant , N . Lardneb . To Mr . Ward , in Gresham College .
* The first part of the Credibility had appeared in the preceding February , and the author's learned correspondent had probably communicated some remarks on the volume . In an " advertisement concerning the second edition , " Dr . Lardner says , " the most important addition is a curious observation on Josephus concerning the Egyptian impostor , which I received from Mr . Ward . " Works ( 1788 ) , I . 5 . -f 4 t Dissertatio Quinta , Cap . iii . De Strategis ac de Scribis Giaecorura , " in " Antonii Van Dale Dissertationes , ix ., Antiquitatibus quin et Marmoris , cum Romanis , turn potissimuin Graecis , illustrandis inserrientes . Amstel . 4 to . Anno MDCCII . " This volume is in the British Museum from the Library of the late Dr . Burney , and iu the catalogue of Dr . Williams . Antony Van Dale was a literary associate of Le Clerc . From his brief tfoge , written immediately on receiving the tidings of his friend ' s decease , we learn that Van Dale ' s passion for a studious life was early discovered . Yet , under the advice of prudent relations , he engaged in commerce till the age of 30 , when , resuming his literary pursuits , he also applied to the study of Medicine , in the practice of which he appears to have been eminent . He was , for some time , a preacher among the Mennonites , and died Noy . 28 , 1708 , aged 70 , at Harlem , where he had , for many years , been Physician to the Hospital , * dont il prenoit beaucoup de soin , quoique d'ailleurs fort attache" a ses lectures . " BibKothtque Choisie ( 1709 ) , XVII . 309—312 . % See Lardner's Works , I . 44 , 105 , 106 .
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ORIGINAL LETTERS OF DR . LARCNER ' S .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/22/
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