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VIII. Græce, Lat.-Parma, Bodoni, 1800. large 4to. A splendid edition.
Fab. Esop. quales ante Planudem ferebantur, cura et stud. Fr. de
Furia, Græce, Lat.-Florence, 1809. Vol. II. 8vo. An elegant edition,
with the best text, according to the Florence MSS. (It was reprinted,
with the addition of some dissertations, at Leipsic, by Weigel, 1810.
8vo.)

A DICTIONARY OF THE VALUABLE EDITIONS OF GREEK AND LATIN
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edited by E. H. BARKER, Esq., of Thetford, Norfolk; with
English Translations of the Latin Criticisms. Now first pub- X.
lished.

ESCHYLUS.

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Græce, recens. cum Schol. Gr. Diam. Coray, c. figur.-Paris. 1810. 8vo. A critical and very copious edition.

Fab. Esop. e cod. Augustano nunc primum edit. cum Fabb. Babrii
aliisque, Græce, recens. J. G. Schneider.-Breslau, Korn. 1812. 8vo.
An accurate edition, with very excellent critical observations.
ÆTHICUS.

Cosmographia, ex bibl. P. Pithoei, ill. Jos. Simler.-Basle, 1575. 12mo.
A useful edition.

2. Tragoed. VI. e rec. Adr. Turnebi.-Paris, Turnebus, 1552. 8vo. A handsome edition.

I.

3. Tragœdiæ VII. (VI.) Græce, ex edit. F. Robortelli.-Venice, Scott. 1552. 8vo. (Scholia Gr. ib. Vinc. Valgris. 1552. 8vo.)

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4. Trag. (N.B.) VII. Græce, ex edit. P. Victorii et Henr. Stephani. 1557.
4to.-The first critical edition, accurate and elegant.
5. Trag, ex edit. Guil. Canteri.-Antwerp, Plantin, 1580. 16mo. A beau-
tiful and very accurate edition.

Th. StanAn excellent (N. B. It was

6. Trag. VII. Græc. Lat. cum Schol. Græc. vers. et comment.
leii.-London, Corn. Bee, 1633, and J. Hart, 1664. fol.
and richly furnished edition, with a new Latin version.
republished by on. de Pauw, as editor, though with many inaccu-
racies, at the Hague, Gosse, 1745. Vol. II. 4to.

7. Græce, Lat.-Glasgow. Foulis, 1746. Vol. II. 8vo. A very handsome
edition. (Another edition, with several corrections, appeared in the same
year, in small 4to.)

8. Græce, ex rec. R. Porsoni (?)-Glasgow, University Press, A. Foulis, 1795. fol. (63 copies.) A critical and splendid edition.

9. Gr. Lat. rec. illustr. C. G. Schütz.-Halle, 1800-1801. Vol. II. 8vo. A very useful edition, with the best Latin version.

10. Trag. VII. Græce, Lat. (rec. Rich. Porson.)-Printed at Glasgow, by
Foulis, 1794; sold at London, by Payne, 1806. Vol. II. small 8vo. A
critically correct edition, without annotations.

11. Recens. Var. Lect. ill., Scholia Græca adj. Ch. G. Schütz. (non absolv.)
-Halle, Gebauer, 1808-21. Vol. IV. 8vo. The fourth volume contains
the Scholia; the commentary is excellent.
12. Trag. ex recens. Th. Stanleii, c. apparat. crit. aux. S. Butler.-Cam-
bridge, 1809. Vol. VIII. 8vo. This is in some degree, a critical edition,
and forms an enlarged reprint of that of Stanley.

II. 1. Persæ, ad fid. Libb. MSS. et Edd. Antiq. emendav. integr. lect. variet.
textui subj. et comment. crit. exeget. illustr. E. R. Lange et G. Pinzger.
-Berlin. Dunker, 1825, 8vo. The best critical edition.

ESOPUS.

1.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

Ed. Pr. Moralitas, Latine, e Græco in Latin. traducta. (per Hildebert.) -Romæ, in domo Jo. Philippi de Lignamine,' 6. Novbr. 1473. 4to. Ed. Pr. Græce, Lat. ed. Bonus Accursius Pisanus.-No place or date is mentioned; but it probably appeared at Milan, between 1476 and 1480. 4to. A very scarce edition.

Græce, Lat. cum Gabriæ Fabb. et aliis.-Venice, Aldus, 1505. fol. handsome and excellent edition.

edition.

ÆTIUS.

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Ed. Pr. Historiæ et Poet. de imperio et rebus gestis Justiniani Imperat.
Libb. V. Græce, cum Interpr. Lat. Bonav. Vulcanii; acc. ejusd. Agath.
Epigramm. Græce.-Leyden, Plantin. 1594. 4to.

De reb. gest. Gothorum, et cum Jornande.-Basle, 1531. fol. The edition
commonly considered the best.

III. De imperio et reb. gestis Justiniani Imper. Libb. V. Græc. Lat. cum Vers.
Lat. B. Vulcanii.-Paris. 1660. fol. (Inter "Scriptt. Hist. Byz.") The
best edition.

| AULUS GELLIUS. See GELLIUS AULUS.
ALBINOVANUS PEDO.

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Græce. Lutet. (Paris) excud. Rob. Stephanus. 1546. 4to.-An elegant edition, and remarkable for its accuracy.

Mythologia Esopica, cum Interpret. Lat. anonymi (Hildeberti,) cd. Jo. Nic. Nevelet. Græce, Lat.-Frankfort. (1610. 1660.) 1668. 8vo. cum figg. A correct edition, exhibiting the best text, according to the reading of the Heidelberg MSS.

Fabularum Æsopic. Collect. cum Interpr. Lat. ed. Marianus, (Hudson,)
Græce, Lat.-Oxford, 1718. 8vo. A superior and handsome edition.
(It was reprinted, with additions, at Eton, 1749, 8vo, and 1755 in
12mo.)

Fabul. Æsop. Coll., Græce, cum Vers. Lat. emend. Præf. et Adnott.
J. G. Hauptmanni.-Leipsic, (1741.) 1756. 8vo. A superior and richly

III. Elegiæ III. et Fragm. cum Not. Var. ed. Theod. Gorallus. (Jo. Clericus.)
Acc. Cornelii Severi Etna et Fragm.-Amsterdam, 1703. 8vo. A good
IV. Elegien und Fragmente. Text. und. metrische Uebersetzung von J. H. F.
edition. (It was reprinted, at the same place, in 1715. 8vo.)
Meineke.-Quedlinb. Basse, 1819. 8vo.

ALCEUS.

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lated by CALVIN and OLIVETAN. Neufchatel, federe le peuple de l'alliance de Sinai, Salut." 3 Then follows, ¶ V. F. C. a nostre allie & con

folio, 1535.

The title

On a wood-cut tablet, surmounted by a scroll, containing a Hebrew inscription, are the words, LA BIBLE, in very large Roman capitals; underneath, in Gothic letters, is as follows:

"Qui est toute la Saincte escripture
En laquelle sont contenus, le Vieil Testament
& le Nouueau, translatez

en Francoys.

Le Vieil, de Lebrieu :

& le Nouveau,

du Grec.

pages ..... on the reverse of the last are some
Latin verses, of which the first letters of each line,
compose the words "Petrus Robertus Olivetanus."
The next page contains "Les noms de tous les
livres de la Bible;" and on the reverse are 12 verses
in French, addressed "Au Lecteur, &c."
The whole of the dedications, &c. occupy 8 leaves.
The text commences with a large and beautiful ini-
tial letter, fueillet i to clxxxvi, comprising Genesis
to Canticles. Isaiah to Malachi, i to lxvj. . . ..
On a title page,
"Le volume de tous les livres
Apochryphes," &c. Below is a small square wood.
cut, having in the centre a shield bearing a heart

¶ Aussi deux amples tables, lune pour linterpreta- surmounted of a crown, and surrounded by a scroll,

tion, &c. &c.

Dieu en tout Isaiah 1.

Ecoutez cieulx, et toy terre, &c. &c. *Afin que Christ mocque ne demourast, Sans rien Scavoir de sa parolle saincte: Par Iehan Lando vray bourgeois de Morat Ce presant livre, achepte fut sans feinte."* On the reverse of the title-page is a long dedication or address in Latin, commencing

"Ioannes Calvinus, Cesaribus, Regibus, Principibus, Gentibusque," &c. &c.

The following leaf *ii contains a letter or address in French, commencing

"P. Robert Olivetanus, lhumble & petit Translateur, a Leglise de Iesus Christ. Salut." and dated at the end, "Des Alpes, ce xiie de Feburier, 1535." The 7 last lines of this address are printed in a smaller type, and much closer than the rest, for the reason which the writer, in a postscript, has quaintly given, "Ie te eusse escrit plus amplemet: mais tu voys

[The Publisher does not wish to be held responsible for the opinions advocated in the following Dia logues.]

THE CHURCH ASSAILED AND DEFENDED, in a Series of Dialogues between Jonathan Test and Timothy True. By a WESLEYAN.

DIALOGUE I.-RELIGIOUS EQUALITY. Test. A fine evening, Mr. True! a very fine evening, indeed! The air is soft, the gentle breeze is quite refreshing, and the setting sun is going down in all his evening majesty, to visit "his red city in the west," without a cloud upon his ruby face. Yes. sir; yonder setting sun, methinks, presents a most delightful emblem of a happy Christian in the hour of death, whose evening sun goes gently down without a cloud, to rise again ere long and shine through one eternal day. Do take a seat with me, my friend, and let us watch the progress of his departing rays. True. Most willingly, my friend; for I much admire the train of your reflections; and, while I feel quite happy to attend to your remarks, shall be willing to contribute something, in my turn, to our evening's improvement. Your own thoughts, I am happy to perceive, have been employed upon that most delightful and most edifying analogy, which every pious man is apt to find, between the common course of nature and the teaching of the sacred volume. For my own part, I was looking on the vane upon the spire, illumined by the splendour of the setting sun, which now, apparently, bestows upon our parish church his parting benedictions. That fairest and noblest emblem of the Deity on earth, salutes the temple with a parting kiss, and whispers peace to all his worshippers, even the blessed promise of a joyful resurrection to eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Truly, my friend, we may with David say, "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth."

Test. You are an honest churchman, Mr. True; but you must know that I am a dissenter.

with the motto, "Cor contritum & humiliatum, &c." On the reverse is an epistle, "Aux fideles lecteurs," respecting the authority of these apocryphal books, concluding with a list of them. . . . Fueillet ij to lx. On a wood-cut, similar to that of the Old Testament, but the scroll containing a Greek inscription, is "LE NOVVEAV TESTAMENT," in the same large Roman capitals, and underneath is

"De notre seigneur et seul Sauueur
Iesus Christ.

Translate de Grec en Francoys
En Dieu tout.

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words. . . . F. lxxix (not numbered) to xciiij... on the reverse of which is the " Recongnoissance daucunes faultes que sont escheutes en imprimant"ending with "Imprime par Pierre de Wingle, dict Pirot Picard, Bourgeois de Neufchastel, Mil CCCCCXXXV F. xcv to cv contain "Indice des princi. pales matieres contenues en la Bible," made by Matthieu Gramelin, who has prefixed a short address, "Aux Lecteurs Chrestiens". . . F. cvi (not numbered) contains, first, the general register of the sheets according to the collation. Then the Imprint,

"Acheve dimprimer en la ville et Conte de Neufchastel, par Pierre de Wingle, dict Pirot Picard. Lan. M.D. xxxv.

le iiij. jour de Juing."

Then the same wood-cut mentioned in the title to the Apocrypha, which is followed by the following

verses......

"Au Lecteur de la Bible.
Lecteur entendz, si Verite addresse,
viens donc ouyr instament sa promesse
et vif parler: lequel en excellence
veult assurer nostre grelle esperance.
lesprit Iesus qui visite et ordonne
nos tendres meurs, icy sans cry estonne
tout hault raillart escumant son ordure.
remercions eternelle nature,
prenons vouloir bienfaire librement,
Iesus querons veoir Eternellement.

Et leur ouurage etoit comme si une
roue eust este au milieu de l'autre
roue. Iehezeh. i. d.

The first letter of every word of the above lines compose the following couplet, declaring the origin of

this translation.

"Les Vaudois peuple evangelique,

Ont mis ce thresor en publique." The volume is printed in a handsome Gothic type. The initial letters are remarkably well cut.

as you call them, wiser in their generation than the envious and unthankful of mankind? Those birds are no dissenters, Mr. Test; they wisely cleave to the established Church.

Test. I would not willingly or needlessly cast Test. Sir, I bave not gathered my religion from any one bitter ingredient into the present cup of our evening's meditations; nor would I willingly those rooks and daws, nor from the owls and bats, insinuate that there was any thing invidious implied but from the Bible: neither, sir, do I respect those in your remarks upon the parish church; and yet, churches which are made of wood and stone; but I perhaps, I might just venture to direct your eye to respect those churches only which are built of living yonder rooks and daws about the building. Do stones. Nor can I look upon that mouldering pile, you not observe that they are sailing round and as you are wont to do, with superstitious veneraround the church in airy rings, or cawing from the tion. I am a dissenter, sir, and a dissenter from conbattlements of yonder mouldering tower? Those viction, and from Christian principle, and from a birds are birds of omen, Mr. True; and be assured sense of Christian duty, which may, perchance, be their inharmonious clamour at the parish church more than you could say of your attachment to the would certainly presage its fall. Church.

Test. Sir, I cannot understand your meaning. Do explain your words, and say, how can a persecuted dissenter be a privileged person?

True. The presage, Mr. Test, may proceed en- True. A dissenter, in our country, Mr. Test, is tirely from yourself, and from the influence of your certainly a privileged member of society; and, thereown prejudice upon your mind, and therefore may fore, a dissenter, if he be a man of principle, will feel more clearly indicate the hostile feelings of your it to be his imperious duty to support the national heart against the church, than any token of Divine institutions of his country, and will be unfeignedly displeasure towards it. David would have contem- thankful to God, and to the Church, and to the plated such delightful objects with far other sympa- government of our land. thies than those which you betray: did he not say, "The sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young, even thine altars, my King, and my God?" Those birds, whose voices are discordant in your ears, must sing melodious circumflections in the ear of Him who made them, and inspired their hearts with joy, and who inclines their sympathies to yonder venerable pile, wherein they find a glad asylum from their daily toil. No pilfering hand molests them in the house of prayer. Besides, my friend, they like that elevated region, far above the world; and they, methinks, would teach us, by their out-spread wings and airy flight around that sacied pile, like them to emulate the skies. Instinct, my friend, is inspiration; and the inspiration of the Deity within their joyful hearts inclines them to the house of prayer, the church, to swim their evening rounds before they take their nightly rest. And are not all those birds of omen,

True. In England, a dissenter is a privileged person; privileged by law, to worship God without the walls of the established Church, and to propagate Christianity without its pale, and to make disciples among those very persons whom the Church has made Christians already, at least, in profession, and in popular belief; and, therefore, every sensible and consistent dissenter ought to be the friend of the Church, and to support the Church of England from a sense of Christian duty.

Test. I am a dissenter from principle, and, therefore, could not, in my conscience, willingly support the Church.

True. The highest application of the term principle, is that of an established-an invincible habit of acting, from a conviction of truth and from a sense

of duty. Is that what you intend, when you profess to be a dissenter from principle?

Test. I do say, that I am a dissenter from principle.

True. If what you denominate as principle, be in reality a conviction of the truth, or a sense of duty, why then, of course, the part which you are acting therein must be respectable; but, if you only mean by principle, a feeling of sectarian enmity to national establishments, why, then it would appear that you have most unhappily mistaken your prejudice for rational conviction, and your own angry and sectarian feelings for a sense of Christian duty. If the principle, to which you have imputed your dissent, had been a rational perception of the truth, or a devout conviction of your duty, your conduct then would have admitted of a rational and scriptural defence, and your reasons might have produced conviction on my mind. I wish to be open to conviction, and, therefore, if you will only have the goodness to adduce some scripture evidence of truth and duty on the part of dissenters, it is quite possible that I may soon become a dissenter too.

fact of its dominancy would discredit its Christian character? You will pretend to object to the Christian character of the Church, because it has been established by national law, and because it is patronized by the authority of the nation, and because it lives in the affections of the people; whereas, those facts, as far as the evidence which they contain is concerned, would be all in favour of the Church, and would go to accredit the truth of her pretensions. Test. Well, sir, you may take the popular side, and the honourable side, if you please; but I shall espouse the side of the minority. And I remember that Christ himself hath said that "Wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leadeth to destruction; and many there be which go in thereat."

True. That awful declaration, I conceive, has got no real bearing on the present question. It contains a most appalling description of the moral and religious condition of mankind in general: but it has no relation whatever to the question of Church ascendancy; nor is it at all adapted to the purpose of settling the question of, whether in establishing a national Church, our national authorities have comTest. Possible? sheer possibility, my friend, is al- mitted a trespass on the Divine prerogative, or tramways on the very utmost margin of an absolute impos-pled on the rights of mankind? If this example may be sibility; because, if it is possible for you to become a dissenter, it must be at least equally possible for you to remain a churchman; and I do certainly opine, that you, like many others, are much too fond of the loaves and fishes, to admit the light of reformation to illuminate your mind. You are too fond of place and power; you are too fond of sailing with the wind, and of swimming with the tide, to launch upon the wide ocean of religious liberty, and circumnavigate the globe. At present, sir, dissenters are all out of office, out of public place and power, and are all in the minority, which would not do for you, I

ween.

True. And would it, then, be wisdom in me, to choose dissenting for dissenting's sake? or to choose dissent because dissenters are in the minority? or to choose dissent because it is unpopular? And would it not be, think you, sorry seamanship in me, to choose to sail against the wind, and swim against the tide, when wind and tide would bring me to the port desired? But now, to speak without a metaphor, would it indicate a sound mind, or indicate an upright heart in me, to dissent from all received opinions, and to run counter to the common feelings of mankind, just out of mere self-will, and without some rational and sufficient cause? Precedent and public feeling are in favour of the Church, and so is public conviction; and, therefore, without a solid and sufficient reason on its side, dissent would be perversity, and all hostility to national establishments of Christianity would be nothing better than religious envy and sectarian pride.

Test. And would you argue, that every thing must be right which happens to be popular? and that every thing must be righteous which has been established by law?

True. And would you, my friend, argue, that every thing which is popular must be erroneous, and that every thing must be unrighteous which has been recognised for truth by human law? Must truth be always feeble? Must truth be always in the minority? Must it always contradict the public feeling of mankind? A native sense of moral and religious obligation must be the real basis of all social law, and all its primitive convictions must be, therefore, of divine authority, and must be uniform in all mankind, and must be both popular and righteous. That our Church has been established by law, and has the sanction of public opinion, and of national authority, and that it is supported by a voluntary levy on the nation, can never contain, in itself, any legitimate evidence against the Church. You must have recourse to other sources for any rational proof, that a national church is an unrighteous institution. That the Church is popular, and has got the sanction of national law, can never be pleaded in evidence that a national Church is an unrighteous institution. Test. And would you pretend to maintain, that the fact of its dominancy would go to accredit its Divine authority?

True. And would you pretend to maintain that the

taken as a specimen of your method of interpreting the Holy Scriptures, there is much reason to fear that you will reap but little benefit from the exercise of private judgment, in the reading of the sacred volume.

Test. Will you suffer me to ask you, why all Christian communities ought not to be placed on a perfect equality?

True. I might answer your inquiry, by repeating that eloquent distich of our most finished and classical poet :

"Nor ask of yonder argent fields above,

Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove?" Test. I will say, that there ought not to be any dominant church. There ought not to be any national partiality in our government, any more than in the Deity himself. The government ought, certainly, to act upon that Christian principle, "As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them."

True. Your scripture authority is irrelevant to your purpose. What have the laws of social equity to do with the question of a national Church? Do produce something to the point, either in the shape of rational argument, or in that of scripture authority.

Test. Sir, I will maintain that God is equally the Father of us all, and that Christ is equally the head of all the Churches.

True. That all Christian Churches have an equal claim on the Divine protection, in proportion to their actual conformity with the spirit and the precepts of Christ, I have no disposition to dispute: but how would you prove that all your Christian Churches, as you are pleased to call them, have an equa! claim upon national support? That is the point which you have got to prove.

Test. We have nothing at all to do with your national support; and you have no business with it neither; it is the accursed thing. Christ is the only head of the Church.

True. The only divine and invisible head of the Church; but not the only visible and human head, I should conceive?

Test. We have got no visible and human head. We have no head but Christ himself.

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True. There may, perhaps, be no autocrat of all your Churches, as you call them, whether Calvinistic, or Arminian, or Socinian; they are too heterogeneous to be so united but can you point out any of your Churches, whether great or small, Arminian or Calvinistic, Connexional or Congregational, that has got no visible or human bead? Would you have bodies, then, without heads? Would not all such things be quite unnatural, and even monstrous? Some of your dissenting bodies have got many heads, some of them scores, and some of them hundreds. Can you find me any organized body without a head, whether it be civil or religious, and whether it be provincial or national, or whether it be voluntary or constrained !

Test. Sir, you have got the invidious faculty of making the worse to seem the better reason. You will always have recourse to subterfuge and logical evasion. I wish to keep you to the point at issue, and to know if you would solemnly maintain, that the Church of England has really got any higher claims on the Divine protection than our own dissenting churches have?

True. That is not the point at issue Mr. Test. If I were to concede that the Church of England has got no higher claims on the Divine protection than any of your own dissenting churches have, pray what would follow? The question now at issue is, not that of the Divine protection, but is that of the national patronage and national support. Pray, sir, is the happiness, for which you so much envy the Church, that of the divine patronage and support, or that of national endowment? Is the patronage for which you envy us, national or divine?

Test. And pray, what right have you to exclude the dissenters from any privilege which you enjoy ? Is not the Almighty the Father of us all? and is not Christ the Saviour of us all?

True. So argues the leveller, and the revolutionist, and the enemies of all righteousness; men who will not distinguish between equal rights and equal possessions, and between Christian privilege and national patronage. As to our excluding you from any privilege which we ourselves enjoy, we really exclude you in no other sense than that in which the rightful possessor must always exclude every vain pretender, or the midnight thief. The nation has elected the Church to their national honours and emoluments, from which dissenters are excluded. That is the real state of the case, and that is the whole of the

matter.

Test. But you would arrogate to yourselves the exclusive favour of the Deity.

True. Do you really mean the exclusive favour of the Deity, or the exclusive patronage of the nation? Test. I do mean to say, that you would arrogate to yourselves the exclusive favour of the Deity.

True. Not so, my friend; we do not arrogate to ourselves the exclusive favour of the Deity. We dare not arrogate to ourselves such exclusive favour: neither is that the real matter of your complaint. We desire no such exclusive favour: we exclude no man from an equal participation in the blessings of the gospel with ourselves, but we allow to every man an equal share in the paternal sympathies of God our heavenly Father. Pray, my dear friend, from what religious blessing has the Church excluded you, or your fraternity?

Test. I will openly maintain that there ought not to be any dominant church. There ought not to be any difference at all between one Christian body and another. They ought all to be alike.

True. I never yet could find any two things to be exactly alike; and if the human forms of Christianity have always been dissimilar, pray, have not the nation got a right to choose that form of Christianity, which they themselves regard as being the most scriptural, and in most accordance with the interests of true religion in our country? You say alike; alike in what respects? alike in learning? or in piety? or in their forms of Christian worship? or do you mean alike in wealth, and in patronage, and in the national esteem?

Test. I mean alike in patronage, and national support.

True. And do you really wish for a religious equality in all your Christian Churches? Do you desire to see the Unitarians, and Huntingtonians, and Sandemanians, and Swedenborgians, and the Wesleyans, and Wesleyan Seceders, together with every anomalous congregation in the kingdom, to become as numerous, and as respectable, and as wealthy as your own community? And do you wish them all to be equally patronized by the state? and equally endowed, and equally prosperous? What say you, my dear friend, about such a sectarian equality? Do you sincerely wish to see it in our land?

Test. I could not wish to see some of those con

gregations in prosperity; that I must allow. But, I would neither bless them at all, nor curse them at all. I would leave them.

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Test. Yes, sir, that I would; for some of them I certainly dislike as much, and even more, than I dislike the Church.

True. Sectarians, my friend, are in religion, what the rooks and crows are in the feathered tribes. They dislike each other all the more because of their resemblance to each other, as though every one of them had found in his neighbour but a caricature of himself.

True. And should you give them your suffrage? Test. By no means, sir; for I would rather have the Church to remain as it is.

True. And would they give their suffrage to you? Test. No more than we should give our suffrage to the Methodists.

True. Is there any church that would give you their vote?

It is impracticable, and enand a splendid dream. True. That is, without state patronage, and with- thodists were to come forward as candidates for na-equality in property and station, it is only a delusion, tional election. tirely visionary, and is the offspring of religious pride It is but another out national support. and your sectarian jealousy. Phaeton in the chariot of the sun-another witch astride on a broomstick-another speculator mounted on a hippogriff-another frog in a meadow, swelling herself out to the dimensions of the fattened ox. Equality among religious communities, is like the squaring of the circle, among dreaming mathematicians-or like the perpetual motion among visionary mechanics-or like the philosopher's stone among the doting alchymists-or like the inextinguishable lamp among the visionary students of the occult sciences-it is nothing but the creature of the human fancy-it is nothing but an empty dream. So now, allow me just to wish you a good evening, and better Test. You certainly do well to walk away; but I views of such important things. will surely have this matter out with you another (To be continued.) evening.

Test. We may let them all alone, for we have nothing to fear from them.

Test. Verily, I do not think there is, nor any one to whom we should be free to give our suffrage. If we must have a national Church, we must have the one we have, I do believe.

True. And do you not think that the Church is now True. Then may we safely bid defiance to all your too firmly seated on the throne of the public mind, to fear any overthrow from your sectarian hostility? sectarian jealousy, and to all your hostility, and to And even if the Church were now discarded from all your machinations. The Church will stand sethe confidence and service of the nation, pray, which cure, as long as Christianity and human nature shall of your dissenting churches would the public feeling remain just what they are, and that will be as long as time itself shall last. Religious equality, sectarian of the nation be disposed to set up in her place? Test. I should not wonder if the Wesleyan Me-equality, ecclesiastical equality, is like the notion of

CATALOGUE-continued from No. I.-of a portion of EDWARD LUMLEY'S EXTENSIVE ASSEMBLAGE of BOOKS-selected and partially classified from upwards of 40,000 volumes in all languages-highly interesting to the SCHOLAR, STUDENT, THEOLOGIAN, and Reader of every description. It must be self-evident, from the low price at which these books are marked, that they can be had for CASH ONLY; and may be obtained through any Bookseller in the Three Kingdoms, the Colonies, or the United States.

LIBRARIES TO ANY EXTENT PURCHASED.

721 Apology for set forms of Liturgie against the Pretence of the Spirit, 1649; Hickeringil's Lay Clergy, or the Lay Elder, 1695; J. Humfrey's Pacification on the Doctrinal Dissent in London, 1696; St. Paul's Confession of Faith. Answer to Catholick Papers, 1686, &c. 6 small 4to. tracts, 3s. 6d.

722 Apology for the Protestants of France, in reference to their Persecutions, in VI. Letters, 1683; Briscoe on the Funds of the Million-Act, Lottery-Act, and Bank of England, shewing them injurious and ruinous, 1694; Looking Glass for all New-Converts, or St. Bernard's Sermons translated, 1677, small 4to. 38. 6d.

723 Apostolical Fathers, Genuine Epistles of, translated, with Discourse by Archbp. Wake, 8vo. calf,

5s. 6d.

1719

724 Apostolical Conceptions of God, propounded in
Bristol, 1786
a Course of Letters, 8vo. 28.
725 Apostolical Preaching, considered in an Exa-
mination of St. Paul's Epistles (by Bp. Sumner),
8vo. 48. pub. 78.

1815

with Address 726 Apothecary, Flagellation for an, to the Body, 1773; Rev. J. Francis (of Norwich) Vindicatory Reflections on the Moral and Religious Character of David, 1764; Dr. Johnson's Collection of Authentic Cases of Recovery of Persons visibly Dead, 1773, &c. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 727 Apothecary, The Gentleman turned, or the Surprize, in Latin and English Verse, 1739; Boileau's Art of Poetry, translated, 1715; Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. with Memoirs, 2 vols. 1739, thick 12mo. 58. 727* Apothecaries. Short View of the Frauds and Abuses committed by Apothecaries, as well in relation to Patients as Physicians, by Dr. Merrett, 1670 small 4to. 28. 728 Apothegmata Parabolæ Sententiæ et Prouerbiorum Ciceronis, Planti, Terentii, &c. &c. &c. cr. 8vo. Paris, H. Stephano, 1540-6 russia extra, 38. 729 Appert's Art of Preserving all Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years, 1812 cr. 8vo. scarce, 3s. 6d. pub. 58. 729* Appleton (Miss) Early Education, or Management of Children considered with a View to their Future Character, 8vo. scarce, 3s. pub. 108. 730 Apuleius' Golden Ass and Philosophical Works, translated by Th. Taylor, 8vo. with the sup1822 pressed passages at end, 58. 6d. pub. 15s. 731 Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche, a Mythological Tale, royal 8vo. calf extra, beautiful plate of the

1820

Gem, "excellent translation by H. Gurney,'
3s. 6d.

1800

1792

of the Courts of the Native Princes, &c. 2 vols. 1833 8vo. 68. 6d. pub. 11. 48.

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(Catholic) for every Sunday, 3 vols. cr. 8vo. highly 749 Archer (Rev. J.) Second Series of Sermons praised by Ch. Butler, calf, neat, 58. pub. 11. 1801 Account of Favours to Archery Revived, an 750 ARCHERY. Wood's Bow-man's Glory, or

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Archers, by Henry VIII., James and Charles I., 1682 &c. &c. 8vo. old blue morocco, 48. Robert's English Bowman, or Tracts on Archery, with the Bowman's Glory, 8vo. half 1801 calf, neat, scarce, 88. 752 Architecture, Ancient Reliques, or Delineations of Monastic, Castellated and Domestic Architecture, &c., with Historical and Descriptive Sketches, 2 vols. cr. 8vo. half calf, numerous 1812 plates, fine impressions, 78. pub. 11. 48.

"la miglior traduzione
732 Apulejo dell' Asino d'Oro traslato da Firenzuola
in Lingua Toscana, 8vo.
ed i motto pregiata."-Haym. 38.
733 Aquinatis, Thomæ, Doctoris Angelici, Defensio,
adversus recentiores Theologos, qui Prædetermi-
nationem Physicam ad actus liberos falso affingunt,
a Sancto Joseph ex Congre. Fuliensi, 18mo. old
Duaci, 1664
morocco, 38.
734 Arabian Nights' Entertainments, translated from
Arabian MSS. by Galland, 4 vols. 12mo. bnd.
1754
48. 6d.
735 Arabian Nights, 4 vols. cr. 8vo. neat edition in
1835
cloth, plates, 98.
736 Arabian Nights, 3 pocket vols, calf, 48. 6d.
Suttaby, 1807
Les Mille et Une Nuits, Contes Arabes, 753
traduits, par Galland, 7 vols. cr. 8vo. half calf,
Paris, 1819
neat, plates, 88. 6d.
738 Arabian Nights, The New, selected by Von Ham-
mer, and now first translated by G. Lamb, 3 vols.
cr. 8vo. 58. 6d. pub. 18s.

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1826
Cod. MS. Bodleiano,
739 Arabic. Abdollatiphi compendium memorabi-
lium Egypti Arabice e
1789
edidit White, cum Præfat. Pauli, 8vo. 38.
Hunt Oratio antiquitate, elegantia, utili.
tate, Linguæ Arabicæ, 4to. (pp. 56,) 28. Oxon. 1739
741 Arabian Poetry, from the earliest time, Spe-
cimens of, with poetical translations, and account
of the Authors, by Professor Carlyle, small 4to.
1796
half calf, 58. 6d.

Architectural Magazine and Journal of Improvements in Architecture, Building and Furnishing, and various arts and trades connected, by Loudon, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, numerous cuts, 108. 1834-5 pub. 11. 28. Architectural Ornaments, or Collection of 754 Capitals, Friezes, Roses, Entablatures, Mouldings, 1820 &c. 4to. half calf, 100 plates, 11s. Assemblage of 45 Architectural Plans, 755 Designs, with Specifications, including plans, &c. of the Rules of the Fleet, Bridges, &c. &c. 58. Baldinucci Vocabolario Toscano dell' Arte del Disegno, nel quale si esplicano i propri termini e voci della Pittura, Scultura e Architettura, Firenze, 1681 4to. vellum, 3s. 6d. Barozzio de Vignole regles des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture, 8vo. calf, 67 plates, 2s. 6d. Paris, 1764

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742 Aramicæ et Hebraica Grammaticæ, atque adeo
dialectorum inter se, Comparatio ex Ceuallerij et
Doctorum Virorum a Bertramo, small 4to. Geo.
1574 758
Whiston's autograph and MS. notes, 3s.
743 Arbuthnot's Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights
and Measures, Explained and Exemplify'd in
several Dissertations, 4to. calf, neat, "standard
1727
work of great value," 8s. 6d.
744 Archæologia, see Antiquarian Society
745 Archæological Dictionary, or Classical Anti-
quities of the Jews, Greeks and Romans, Alpha-
1793 760
betically Arranged, 8vo. calf, 38.
1830
746 (Archbold's) Life of a Lawyer, written by himself,
8vo. 58. 6d. pub. 10s. 6d.
747 Arch-Deacon's Examination of Candidates for
Holy Orders, according to the History, Canons,
and Articles of Religion of the Church, by St.
George, with Wotton's "excellent" Proper Me-
1790
thod of Studying Divinity, cr. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
748 Archer (Major) Tours in Upper India, and in
Parts of the Himalaya Mountains, with Accounts

BRITTON'S CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANCIENT ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE OF GREAT BRITAIN; consisting of eighty plates, by Le Keux, of Plans, Elevations, Sections, Views, and Details, of Edifices, with ample Historical and Descriptive Accounts, large paper, royal 4to.31. pub. 111. 1827

The Buildings are classed and arranged in Chronological Order, whereby the progressive and almost imperceptible changes of style are defined. From the carliest specimens to the reign of Elizabeth, almost [56, Chancery Lane.

every variety of design, and every successive novelty, 783 Architecture Freart's Parallel of the Anare displayed; and these are engraved in Plan, Section, Elevation, and Perspective View, for the purpose of accurate and satisfactory delineation. By this mode, a Grammar of English Architecture is provided, and its Elements plainly and amply developed. A Dictionary of Terms with Definitions, &c. is added.

761 Architecture. Britton's Lichfield Cathedral, 4to. plates, 14s. pub. 3 gs. 1820 762 Britton's Hist. and Antiquities of Norwich Cathedral, with Biographical Anecdotes, 4to. 188. pub. 21. 10s. 1816

763 Britton's Hist. and Antiquities of Salisbury Church, 4to. fine plates, 188. pub. 3 gs. 1813 764 Britton's Worcester Cathedral, 4to. fine plates, 13s. pub. 11. 18s. 1835 765 Britton's Hist. and Antiquities of York Cathedral, with Biographical Notices, 4to. splendid impressions, 18s. pub. 3l. 158. 1819 Britton's History and Antiquities of Bath Abbey Church, with Biographical Anecdotes and Epitaphs, royal 8vo. fine plates, 5s. pub. ll. 1825 Caveler's Select Specimens of Gothic Architecture in England, with Plans, Sections, Elevations, &c., 2 first parts, 11. 5s. pub. 2 gs.

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1835 Chambers' Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils, with Description of their Temples, Houses, Gardens, &c., folio, 18 fine plates, 5s. 6d. 1757 769 Chambers' Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew, the seat of the Princess of Wales, royal folio, 43 fine plates, 78. 6d. 1763

770

CLARKE'S Graphical Survey of the CATHEDRAL, COLLEGIATE, and PAROCHIAL CHURCHES in London, Southwark, and Westminster, and adjoining Parishes, with History of each, and Remarks on their Structure, very fine copy, royal 4to. russia, super extra, 120 plates by Coney, Shepherd, &c. 2 gs. pub. 9 gs. in bds. 1820 771 Crunden's Convenient and Ornamental Architecture, in Original Designs for Plans, Elevations and Sections, from the Town House to the Grand Villa, 4to. 70 plates, 48. 1805 772 DALLAWAY (Rev. James) Observations on ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE, Military, Ecclesiastical and Civil, compared with Continental Buildings, with Critical Itinerary of Oxford and Cambridge, and Historical Notices of Stained Glass, Ornamental Gardening, with Chronological Tables, and Dimensions of Cathedral and Conventual Churches, royal 8vo. new, in cloth, only 28. pub. 128. 1806 773 Davison's Series of Original Designs for Shop-Fronts, folio, 12 fine plates, 38. pub. 12s. 6d.

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Dearn's Sketches in Architecture, containing Original Designs for Public and Private Buildings, 4to. 16 plates, 3s. 6d. pub. 158. 1814 775 Demont Traite des premiers Elemens d'Architecture, a l'usage des Ouvriers en Batimens, 4to. 46 plates, 3s. 6d. Paris, 1835 776 Eglise Cathedrale de Notre-Dame d'Amiens, Description Historique de, par Gilbert, 8vo. plates, 38. 6d. Amiens, 1833 Eglise de Notre Dame de Reims, Descrip. tion de, par Gilbert, 8vo. 28. Paris, 1825 Eglise Metropolitaine de Notre Dame de Rheims, Description Historique de, par PovillonPierard, 8vo. 28. Rheimes, 1823

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Elmes' Lectures on Architecture, comprising the History of the Art from earliest times, 8vo. 38. 6d. pub. 128. 1823 Elmes' Scientific, Historical and Commercial Survey of the Harbour and Port of London, royal folio, cloth, fine plates, 16s. pub. 11. 10s.

780

781

1838 Elsam's Practical Builder's Perpetual Price Book, for ascertaining the correct average value of the different artificers' works, royal 8vo. calf, neat, plates, 48. 6d.

782

1825

-Essays on Gothic Architecture, by Warton, Bentham, Grose and Milner, 8vo. plates of Ornaments from Ancient Buildings, 4s. 6d. pub. 108. 6d. 1802

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Papendiek's Synopsis of Architecture, an Enumeration and Description of most celebrated Buildings of Antiquity, with copious Vocabulary of Terms for Student and Amateur, 8vo. 15 plates, 3s. 6d. pub. 10s. 1826 Pisa, XII. fine Views, internal and external, of the Falling Tower of, oblong 4to. 48. 6d. Roma, 1705 Pocock's Modern Finishing for Rooms, a Series of Designs for Vestibules, Halls, Staircases, Dressing Rooms, Doors, Windows, also Villas and Porticos, 4to. bound, 86 plates, 12s. 6d. pub. 1811

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21. 809

cient Architecture with the Modern, in a collection of 10 Authors on the 5 Orders, translated by Evelyn, folio, calf, 5s. 1664 Gwilt's Rudiments of Practical and Theoretical Architecture, royal 8vo. 11 fine plates, and vignettes, 11s. pub. 17. 10s. 1826 Hawkins' History of the Origin and Establishment of Gothic Architecture, with the Mode of Staining Glass, as practised in the Middle Ages, royal 8vo. 11 plates, 7s. pub. 188. 1813 786 Hoskings' Treatise on Architecture and Building, (" from the New Encyclopædia Britannica,") 4to. 26 fine plates, 7s. pub. 12s. 1832 Hunt's Designs for Gate Lodges, Gamekeepers' Cottages, and other Rural Residences, 4to. 9 plates, 98. pub. 158. 1826 Kelsall's Letter to the Dilettanti Society, on the Works at Windsor, 8vo. "suppressed;" (in recent Catalogue, 168.) 28. 1827 789 - Kelsall's Phantasm of an University, with Prolegomena of Remarks on Scholastic and Academic Education, Architectural Detail, royal 4to. fine architectural plates, portraits and statues, 68. pub. 5 gs. 1814 790 Laugier Essai sur l'Architecture, avec Dictionnaire des Termes, 8vo. calf, very neat, 8 plates, 28. Paris, 1755 811 Le Comte Cabinet des Singularitez d'Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture et Graveure, ou Introduction a la Connoissance, 3 vols. 12mo. calf, neat, 38. Paris, 1699 Mackenzie and Pugin's Specimens of Gothic Architecture in Doors, Windows, Pinnacles, &c. with Measurements, selected from Ancient Buildings at Oxford, small 4to. 61 plates, 11s. 793 Malton's Collection of Designs for Rural Retreats, as Villas, principally in Gothic and Castle Styles of Architecture, with Plans, &c. royal 8vo. calf, very neat, 34 plates, 11s.

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MILIZIA'S Lives of CELEBRATED ARCHITECTS, Ancient and Modern, with Historical and Critical Observations on their Works, and on the Principles of the Art, translated, with Notes and additional Lives, by Cresy, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 5s. 6d. pub. ll. 88. 1826 Miller (Rev. G.) Description of the Cathedral Church of Ely, and the Conventual Buildings, royal 8vo. fine plates, 5s. pub. 10s. 6d. 1807 797 Milner's (Rev. J.) Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England during the Middle Ages, 8vo. 10 plates, new, in cloth, 48. 6d. pub. 108. 1835 798 Moller's Memorials of German-Gothic Architecture, translated, with Notes, &c. by Leeds, with Woolhouse's Tables of Continental Lineal Measures, 8vo. cloth, 48. pub. 88. 1836

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Nicholson (Peter) RUDIMENTS OF PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE, described by two easy Methods entirely free from the usual Complication of Lines, and Difficulties of Remote Vanishing Points, 8vo. 38 plates, 78. 6d. 1835 NICHOLSON'S PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE, containing the Fundamental Rules of the Art, with their Application to Practice, and Examples, 3 vols. 8vo. 216 plates, 11. 6s. pub. 3 gs. Another copy, earlier edition, 3 vols. 8vo. best impressions of the plates, 18s. pub. 31. 38. 1793

801

802 Nicholson's Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant, 4to. bound, 79 plates, 6s. pub. 11. 1810 803 Nicholson's Student's Instructor in Draw

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Pozzo's Rules and Examples of Perspective, proper for Painters and Architects, English and Latin, most easie and expeditious to delineate, folio, rough calf, 105 plates, and 200 initial letters, by John Sturt, 88. 1707 Pugin's Designs of Gothic Furniture of the 15th Century, 4to. fine plates, 13s. pub. 11. 18. 1835

810

Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture from Antient Edifices in England, in Plans, Elevations, Sections and Parts at large, with Hist. and Descriptive Accounts, 4to. vol. 1, 73 plates, 11. 10s. pub. 21. 12s. 6d. 1831 811*- Quatremere de Quincy Architecture Egyptienne, Consideree, dans son origine, ses principes, et son gout, et comparee a l'Architecture Grecque, 4to. 18 plates, (but wanting 4,) 38. Paris, 1803 812 Richardson's Specimens of the Architecture of the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I., &c. &c. 4to. half calf, neat, 11. 4s. pub. 17. 168. 1837 813 Rickman on Gothic Architecture, with Notices of 3000 British Edifices, 8vo. plates, 158. 6d. pub. 11. 1s. 1825 Rudiments of Ancient Architecture, with Historical Account of the 5 Orders, their Proportions, &c. by Smirke, royal 8vo. 11 plates, 4s. 6d. pub. 88. 1821

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1825

804 Nicholson's V. Orders, 1825, 41 plates; Ditto Mechanic's Companion, or the Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying,

1831

Trident (The) or the National Policy of Naval Celebration, describing a Hieronauticon or Naval Temple, with its Appendages, intended to foster, the rising Arts of Britain, 4to. fine copy, half morocco, plates by Landseer, 4s. 1802

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