Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-09-19
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COMPILED roR TIE CHARLESTON COURIER
ne art oil PRINTING has received but little substan-
uai Improvement during tue last three centuries Ii
seems 10 nave reached perfection within the first half
century aiter It's invention. In copy of Stathams
Abridgmcnt OF the Law, printed between the wears
1870 and 1880, (says the last N American Rryiewl
lhe paper Is OF very fine silky texture, forming
stronS contrast TO the seaZy linen and cotton of orr
day; the ink is of bright etty and unfaded black the
type though small, and partly composed of abbreviated
characters has sharp and distinct face; and the me-
chanca' execution is so exact, that scarcely letter
eAhoits blur and the surface of every page presents
an UNIFORM Appearance putting shame many of the
standard volumes OF our times. This description was
taken from copy before the Reviewer who saws that
IL formerly belonged 10 Sir Heneage Finch afterwards
the celebrated Earl of Nottingham
fNEhS Aofidgtnent was published between the
years i'4l and 1871 and extending, it does over
"e space OF twenty four folio volumes may be tous 1T
by some not 10 have very apt tile The learned
author passed whole life in compiling the work mud
experimenting the printing OF it..
considerable portion of the civil Jurisprudence nj
Louisiana has been reduced into a sys,ematc co,lo
whose basis is the Napoleon Code Mr. IIv1Ncsroy
now executing, under the patronage of that Slate a
Digest OF her Criminal Jurisprudence: and tosp Who
nave inspected portions of il, consider il work OF
singular acuteness and philosophical precision and I'm
the highest degtee crcditable TO The author
I-Xamine the equitable decisions dependinr on tla
moral perceptions of the mind made BY a Hpdoo
Judge, tour thousand years ago. and on the other side
Vi he !oDe; So OF the Roman Judge in the days of "
rus OF usunian IN another quarter of the world; and
n M
correct American Judge fully acouicsces
IN less than year, thirty editions of BRouGHAm,s
Pracuca Observations upon the Education of the poo
PIE, were printed and circulated.
According TO Mr. Harry there arc a,,ont six thou.
saho Jews IN the L ncd States Common calcua>
lions represent Them as about three thousand
Tue original language OF the New Testament has
Dcen discovered, and is allowed be of the purcst
hi'i but consists of what called the common oia-
fccf tat prevailed throughout :he Macedonian empire
alter Alexander and s bad analganat ed in
Vffl i.,l
different tongues
From the times of Grous the present day. says Pro-
lessor LEE OF Cambridge, ENG we scarcely fnd
one original commentator The Bible; and MANY even
Oh MS refnarks have been borrow ed from the Jews
AN ancient Arabian writer concludes lorid eulo
gum on tie architecture and local beauties Grena-
ga III be fourteenth century, with kening it, in orr
eD'ai fashion, TO "a richly wrought silver filled
with Jacinihs and ci3eraLis.n
II is =@:l, Lat the edition of ColIcctanca
Gfonca Minora, published by Professor Popx1S of
anhridge, Mass at least ten thousand isnccuracicy
have been corrected from the English edition.
WOLF the celebrated German, scholar recently de,
ceased repaired at the University offyo
n@ep lie brought with him the reputation of having
already acquired, by private research extraordinary
acquaintance with the works of the ancients. When
he declared To iEYNE his intention Of dcyoinp him
self TO philoOgy that veteran IN learning attempted
to discourage INN by sa. ing: There are but three
ProcssoIshIps OF Eoquence III all Germany;n and ORG
OF those three mean to have, replied the young asp
rant; and IN TACT, before tie tweutysevcn he had
gained lis object.
The following Instance is given of lYoL1,,s literary
P'dc and arrogance: CIcEEo had, in OF his works
translated long passage of Greek dialogue af
PLATos. WOLF translated tie 'ohoic of the dialogue
INTO i4atn VA most mastery manner, and on pun pose
as he has been heard say, that he might strive with
CICERO himself for the first h0nos in this exercise in
the Roman dialect
New York, with population Of 10, 600, possesses
ten public Libraries, containing $4,000 volumes: Bal
tmn0re with population OF 900 has four public Ii
braries, containing coo volumes; Philadelphia, w it'll
population of 100 600, possesses nineteen public Ii,
braTcs containing 10000 volumes; Boston, with "a
population of 6O,OpO, possesses thirteen public libra
ries, containing 1000 volumes.