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Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part the 2d, page 41, 1819.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 Samuel, chap. 22,
v. 6—" Now Saul abode in Gibeah, under a tree in Ramah, ' &e.
Hebrew, Part the 4th, 1125, New Translation—" Now Saul
abode by Gibeah, under the Grove toward Ramah," &c.
Note. —See Classical Journal, No. 5, for April, 1811.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 King's, chap. 17,
T. 4, " And it shall be, that thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the
brook ; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the sth, 18.31.—" Thus it
shall be, thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded
the Arabians to supply thee there."
V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread, &c.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Psalms, chap. 51, v. 5,
" Behold ! I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me."
Hebrew, Part, 7th, 1134, New Translation.—" If I were
shapen in iniquity, or in sin, my mother had conceived me."
Note.—Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me. This verse, as it stands in the common
version, is not consistent with the Scripture. The Divine com-
munication stands recorded in Gen. i. 28. and God said unto
them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Now
it must strike every reader with conviction, that as God created
man to multiply and replenish the earth, he did not ordain man
to be shapen in iniquity, nor to be conceived in sin. The
Divine order for the multiplication of the human race is as holy
now as at the beginning : it is pronounced to be superlatively
good, Gen. i. 31., and this Divine order is sanctioned through-
out the Scripture, in all its purity, as at the beginning; con-
firmed by the Messiah, who said, Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom
of heaven, Matt. xviii. 14. ; it therefore' ollims, that if man
were shapen in iniquity, and coliceivedi ; n, the Divine insti-
tution of marriage could not have been approved of by him.
Mr. O'Connell is a powerful speaker, a skilful politician, an
able advocate for civil and religious liberty, but he should not
attempt theology.—The Sun, No. 14,672.
" Swift seems to have entertained some gloomy forebodings
of the melancholy fate that awaited him. On seeing a tree,
the top of which was withered, he shook his head, and ex-
claimed, I shall be like that tree, I shall die at top."
Mr. O'Connell, though having received the friendly admo-
nition of this paper, in our matter of " dying at top," ' must
still wear his feathers "in his cap of vanity."
" In London," observes Batista Angeloni, in Letters on the
English Nation, 1750—" religion seems to be periodical, like
an ague, which returns only once in seven days, and then at-
tacks the inhabitants with the cold fit only, which physicians
reckon the most fatal; the burning never succeeds in this
country."
" Even on their days of worship in their Churches,
there is ten thousand times more inattention to their
duty, than to the price of stocks in Change-alley all
the rest of the week ; and the fervour of their devo
tion, to obtain a seat in Paradise is infinitely short to
that of procuring one in Parliament, purchasing a good bar-
gain on the Exchange, or trying to obtain a good place at
Court; they are as cool and inanimated in their acts of devo-
tion, as they are warm and active in those of getting riches,
and their temples and exchanges aro accordingly constructed
within for those different dispositions, every family having in
their churches a snug pew, a kind of closet, where they can sit
and sleep, or employ themselves in anything but their duty to
the Highest ; whereas in their places of commercial rendez-
vous there are no seats, they would be useless there, the zeal of
gain keeping them standing to their duty."
With this accurate delineation of the " Corporation of the
City of London," where " the fervour of their devotion for a
seat in Paradise is infinitely short to that of procuring one in
Parliament ;" and this being the municipal body which gives
tone to the institutions of the country, what promoter, we
may expect on behalf of a matter "of the utmost importance
to the interest of mankind," and " a life beyond life."
It is a melancholy reflection that the " two Estates" distin-
guished amongst us as " collective wisdom" throughout the
realm should have had no deeper feeling towards a linguist of a
country than the frequenters of " 'Change-alley."
It is now more than 30 years since the eminent linguist Bel-
lamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical of
the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical
Journal ;" it is 22 years since we became adherents to his pro-
mulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun, the
Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or " the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of vi-
tuperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled injus-
tice from the press of England.
It is pleasingto us to observe a conspicuous personage in our
triplo state, who was equally unmindful in his day, and of the
posthumous fame of a Prince. Sir Robert Peel has his proper
estimation with a portion of the Press. " The Tories quarrel
with the Hon. Baronet because of the feeble, shifting, cowardly

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policy which he has pursued during several Sessions of Parlia-
ment. We now find this once trumpeted statesman,
everywhere inveighed against by those of his own faction, as a
sluggish and irresolute, if not a feeble-minded, statesman."—
Sunday Times.
When malignancy, the characteristic of olden time—for
Shakespeare wrote " Mens' evil manners live in brass ; their
virtues we write in water"—is so rife amongst us, we consider
it our bounden duty to break a lance with the assailants of the
memory of the Prince and Patron of the Work, " of the ut-
most importance to the interest of mankind," and a4' life be-
yond life"—who
Distort the truth—accumulate the lie,
And pile the pyramid of calumny !"
—English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.—Byron.
Digest of the proceeding, publishing, and publicity of the
Work :—The Classical Journal, from 1810 to 18)8-1818 the
appearance of the First Part. The Sun, Nos. 8,181-8,192.
Review of, and Rejoinder of the Quarterly Review. Reply to,
and Rejoinder from the Author to Quarterly Review.-1819,
First and Second Part of Anti-Deist. Second Part —leo, Cri-
tical Examination of the Objections of Mr. Whitaker, A.M.,
Cambridge. Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the
Holy Scriptures. A Reply to the Reverend Mr. Todd's Vin-
dication of our Authorized Translation and Translators of the
Bible.-1821. The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.—Mr. Bella-
my's Reply to S. Lee, A.M., Professor of Arabia in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge. Third Part.-1822. Compilations in
the Examiner, No. 771.—Aug., Oct., Nov.-1823. Nos, 785,
786, 793. 801, 803.-1824. Nos. 834, 840, 845. In 1495.
Fourth Part. The Times, Saturday, Oct. 16.-1825. The
Durham Chronicle, Saturday, July 16. The Liverpool Sa-
turday Advertiser, July 23 ; and the Norwich Mercury, Sat or..
day, August 13, 1825. In 1827.—N0s 1,021, 1,022. The
Examiner, Vol. 111., No. 34 and No. 69. Galway Indepen_
dent, 1829, Nos. 1,049, 1,050, 1,057.—The Examiner. In
1831, Part sth ;in 1834, Part 6th ;in 1835, Part the 7th. In
1837—The Sun, Nos. 14,056, 14,062, and 14,080. In 1838_
The Guide, Nos. 48,49. The Sun, No. 14,447. In 1839
Nos. 14,465, 14,468, 14,475, 14,482, 14,606. Nos. 14,629,
July 25th, 14.652, 14,653, 14,662, to the latter we lay no pre-
tension, the insertions each, issuing 3,500 per day—are from
souls of kindred fire—who in this glorious field fight together
with us in our chivalry—who have allied themselves with us
in this arduous strife to " do that deed which shall gild our
humble names."—Nos. 11,684, Sept. 28th : 14,703, Oct. 21st :
14,706, Oct. 24th 14,732, Nov. 23d, 1839.
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