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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FREDERICK HASSELQUIST.
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APRIL , 1830 .
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" I conclode , you hare not trusted every thiug to memory , which is ten times worse than a lead pencil : half a word fixed upon or near the spot is worth a cartload of recollection . "—Gray . Few subjects of knowledge are more truly engaging and beneficial than the state of the countries of the East ; their natural productions , their domestic , civil , and religious usages . It is the characteristic property of
oriental customs to be invariable . What the architecture , the ceremonies , the economy , the personal manners , and the modes of life , in Arabia and Palestine , were centuries ago , they still remain , and seem likely to remain : and so different are they from our own as to interest by their novelty , while they instruct by their stableness and their peculiarities . They admit , in particular , of an easy and a useful application to the study of the Scriptures , and serve materially to illustrate passages involved before in apparently impenetrable darkness .
On this account , the lives and writings of intelligent travellers in the Holy Land , and in the adjoining regions , become objects of a liberal and welldirected curiosity . The number of such travellers has been great ; nor do I undertake to give a catalogue of them , which , indeed , would little suit either the limits or the object of the present communication . I shall only remark , that of the individuals who have thus visited the East some have gone thither professionally and officially , * others , with commercial views / f and others , again , exclusively for purposes of literature and science . J Among voyagers and authors , in these several classes , Frederick Hasselquist claims to be honourably noticed ; possessing , as he did , some of
• Such as Maundrell , Shaw , the two Russells , &c . f- Han way , Plaisted , &c , are examples . X Of this description were Sandys , Niebuhr , Haaselquist , &c , &c .
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XL .
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VOL . IV . R
Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Frederick Hasselquist.
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FREDERICK HASSELQUIST .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/1/
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