PEACE, Tracts relat. to, 128, 178, 182, PENNANT'S Journey from Chefter, 97 PESTEL on the Republic of the United Baw's Tweaty Minutes Obfervations on PHEDR Augufti Lib. Fabularum, &c, 590 PHTHISIS Pu'monalis, Effay on, 331 Generale et Particuliere, &c. 613 PINKERTON'S Two Dythirambic Odes, REPORT of the Proceedings of the York- REPORTS of the Commiffioners appoint- REPOSITORY, Vols. III. and IV. 270 REVIEW of Crawford and Siddons, 271 REYNOLDS's Difcourfe to the Royal A- ST. JUAN, Expedition against, 361 Scors Society at Norwich, Acc. of, 359 SEQUEL to the Effay on the Origin of SERIES of Facts, fhewing the political SERIOUS Matter for the Confideration of the Members of both Houses, 181 Answer to L. Geo. Gordon, 533- SEVENTEENTH Article of the Church FINDICATION of Lord Shelburne, 128 the Decline of the clerical Credit and VOYACE ELOTEr du Monde, et vers les doux Paies, par terre et tar me, &c. 606 THE MONTHLY REVIEW, For JANUARY, 1783. ART. I. Poetical Parts of the Old Testament, newly translated from the Hebrew. With Notes Critical and Explanatory. By William Green, M. A. Rector of Hardingham in Norfolk, and formerly Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. 4to. 6s, fewed. Dodfley. -1781. HE learned and ingenious Author purfues the track of Dr. Hare with refpect to the metre of the original Hebrew; and is fo firmly perfuaded of the truth of the Bishop's hypothefis, that he doubts not but that the Hebrew text, if we had it as perfect as when it came out of the hands of the compofers, would as readily fall into that metre, as the Æneid of Virgil, printed as profe, would fall into hexameters.- We think, however, that this affertion is too unqualified and we confider the hypothefis on which it is founded too dangerous to be admitted; because in all places where the metre according to the fuppofed Atructure of it in Dr. Hare's fcheme of Hebrew poetry is imperfect, it is left to mere arbitrary conjecture to fupply the deficiency. -Mr. Green, however, confiders this matter in an oppofite point of view; and argues its utility from what we look on as its uncertainty and danger. In fome inftances, fays he, the metre points out the corruption of the text, and at the fame time the way to restore it.'. Our Author's opinion of the collection of Hebrew MSS. will appear from the following declarations: In the few places I have confulted them, I must own they have not afforded me the fatisfaction I expected from them. They have, however, done one thing moft effectually, which is worth all the thousands they have coft the Public in collating them; that is, they have delivered us from the shackles of the Hebrew verity. And though they may not answer the VOL. LXVIII. · high B |