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Origines Biblicce . By C . T . Beke . Vol . I . This volume is prefaced by a declaration that the author has voluntarily kept himself in ignorance of the mass of valuable materials for his researches which exists in the writings of the German divines , because he holds the heresies of those divines in horror ; and also that his knowledge of their opinions * has been derived , not from any strict investigation of the subject , but from the casual perusal of the current
English literature / When we add that he proceeds on the assumption of the inspired infallibility of every verse of the Old Testament in all matters of history , genealogy , geography , &c ., we shall probably have said enough to make most rational persons despair of deriving much instruction from his 4 researches in primeval history / But if they do , they will be in error . Within the limits which he prescribes to himself , the author displays much independence of thought and diligence of
research . He has lightened many obscurities , and made some discoveries , in the early history of mankind ; and mooted questions which well deserve to be thoroughly discussed . It will be rather a startling proposition to many readers , that the Israelites never were in Egypt ( properly so called ) ; and that the river on which Moses was exposed was not the Nile , but the Wady Gaza , a small stream near Gaza .
A very plausible case is however made out against the identification of the Mitzraim of scripture with the Egypt of profane history , in spite of all translators , from the Seventy downwards . In the next volume be promises to sketch the history of this empire of Mitzraim , which vanished so entirely even from the ancient world . He deserves at least the impartial attention of biblical students .
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An Essay towards an easy and useful System of Logic . By Robert Blakey .
Some useful observations may be found in this work , but as a whole it wants precision , clearness , and consistency . It is very imperfect , either as a description , or a specimen , of that greatest of all arts , the art of reasoning .
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Geographical Questions and Exercises , By Richard Chambers . An Introduction to Arithmetic . By the Same .
These little books have gone through several editions , and deserve to go through several more . They are very convenient for tlie purpose to which they are immediately directed , and convey besides a wonderful 'luantum of information incidentally . Every example , in arithmetic , is toade the occasion of imparting Bomc portion of historical , geographical , ° r other instruction .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 601, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/71/
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