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experienced on the Sabbath in instructing those who have been well taught in the week . If there be many of the children who cannot attend in the day-time , it will be of great service to have an evening hour for them , two or three nights out of the seven . They who wish to see a school for the lower orders extremely well conducted , should Dot omit the
opportunity , when they are in London , of visiting the central school on the British and Foreign ( Lancaster ' s ) system , in the Borough Road , abont half a mile beyond Black friars' Bridge . The reading : and writing of the boys are very creditable both to them and to their
master , their expertuess in mental arithmetic astonishing , and the precision of their consentaneous movements truly beautiful . Oo the 22 d of April last I attended the annual examination , which was rendered more than usually interesting by the presence of twenty young Arabs , whom the Pacha of Egypt has sent over to this country to be educated
as schoolmasters . They arrived only in December last , and the master , Mr . Crossley , has bad no interpreter to assist him , yet he has advauced them with such rapidity , that they read to us ( and read well ) part of the 42 d chapter of Genesis in the English Bible , and afterwards answered questions upon it , in a manner which shewed that what they had been reading was not to them a mere
unmeaning sound . My heart overflowed with joy when I looked on the fine intelligent countenances of some of these boys , and thought of all the good which they will do to their poor benighted country . Truly " the Lord shall be known to Egypt , and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day , and shall do sacrifice and oblation ; yea , they shall vow a vow unto the Lord , and perform it . " Isaiah xix . 21 .
Hoping that the above observations may draw some attention to an important but neglected subject , I remain , &c , S . WOOD . London , May 14 , 1830 .
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Middle ton on the Greek Article . To the Editor . Sir , One of your correspondents , In a recent number , has invited some remarks on the question of the Greek article as treated by Middle ton ; and in the possible absence of any communication from an abler pen , you may perhaps deem those
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that follow not unsuitable for the occasion . It shall be my object to present a brief but clear outline of what I conceive to be the just and impartial view of this subject . To enter into it in full detail would be to compose a volume , as the
Bishop has done ; neither would it , as I apprehend , conduce at all to a clearer understanding of the real merits of the question , which , like many others , is capable of receiving more light from a simple , clear statement , than from long and laboured arguments .
That we may see , then , at once the nature of the case , let us take the most prominent and important text to which the critical canon of Sharpe is proposed to be applied . Tit . ii . 13 , T-qy smfiocvsiav rS fXtyaXe &s& y . cli Xctyriifpo ^ vjfA&v Ivj a- 8
Xptcre , Now the proposed canon is this , that where two or more nouns refer to one and the same person or thing , the article is only prefixed to the first ; but that when they refer to distinct persons or things , it is repeated before each . Such is the rule , and its bearing on . such a passage as that above is obvious . If it be true in
its full extent , that is , without any exceptions , it must follow that Jeans Christ is here called both the great God and our Saviour . To come without delay to the fair issue of the question , let us admit , what few , I presume , will dispute , that this canon as a general rude is good and true . We
will not trifle with the Greek article , nor , like Scaliger , call it " loquaoissinue gentis Jtabellum" but we will hold that a Greek felt as much bound by the laws of his language in its insertion and omission , as we do in respect to onr own . Moreover , we will not only admit the authority of this rule in general , but its applicability to the particular case before us . We shall not contend that there is
any thing in this case that ought properly to exempt it from its jurisdiction , fn short , in point of grammatical strictness and propriety , we shall concede every thing to the Bishop ; he has uuquerttionably the law on his side . The position
which we shall take up will be simply this , that the usage of the article in cases of this kind presents a good deal of laxity , and so much so , that in the case of a free and hasty writer , as the apostle in respect to style assuredly was , we are not warranted in laying any great stress on it .
The elaborate investigations of Middleton do but confirm a conclusion which common sense might have anticipated , that the usage of the Greek article in this ,
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412 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/52/
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