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THE

Eclectic Review.

MDCCCXXV.

JANUARY JUNE.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. XXIII.

Φιλοσοφίαν δε ου την Στωικην λέγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικήν, η την Επικούρειον σε
και Αριστοτελικήν αλλ όσα είρηται παρ έκαστη των αιρεσεων τουτων καλως,
δικαιοσύνην μετα ευσεβούς επιστημης εκδιδασκονία, τουτο συμπαν το ΕΚΛΕΚΤΙΚΟΝ
Φιλοσοφίαν φημί.

CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

SOLD ALSO BY JOHN ANDERSON, JUNIOR, AND
JAMES ROBERTSON AND CO. EDINBURGH;

CHALMERS AND COLLINS, GLASGOW ;

AND R. M. TIMMS, DUBLIN.

Adams's Actual State of the Mexican Mines, &c.

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289

Bentham's Church of England Catechism

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Butler's Letter to the Right Rev. C. J. Blomfield, D.D. Bishop of Chester

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Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, Queen of Naples, and Countess of Pro-

vence

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Kinghorn's Considerations, addressed to the Eclectic Reviewer, &c.

Landor's Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
L'Etrangére, par le Vicompte D'Arlincourt
List of Works recently Published

431, 544

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412

95, 192, 288, 383, 480, 576

Mant's, Dr., Book of Psalms, in an English Metrical Version, &c.
Massillon's Thoughts on different Moral and Religious Subjects
Miller's Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History

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139

Mill's History of Mexico, from the Spanish Conquest to the present Era
Mina's, General, Short Extract of his Life

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181

Modern Traveller, Parts XI. and XII. Mexico

289

Monro's Plea on behalf of a Christian Nation for the Christian Education of
its Youth

Morison's Fashionable Amusements the Bane of Youth

Murray's History of the European Languages

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Sketches of the Principal Pictures in England

276

Smith's, Dr. J. P., Vindication of those Citizens of Geneva who have been
instrumental in the Revival of Scriptural Religion in that City
Speak-out, the, of the Roman Catholic Priesthood

184

61

Spirit of the Age, or Contemporary Portraits

152

Stennett's Memoirs of the Rev. William Ward, late Baptist Missionary in India
Symmons's Translation of the Agamemnon of Æschylus

188

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THE

ECLECTIC REVIEW,

FOR JANUARY, 1825.

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Art. I. The Book of Psalms, in an English Metrical Version, founded on the Basis of the Authorized Bible Translation, and compared with the Original Hebrew; with Notes Critical and Illustrative. By the Right Rev. Richard Mant, DD. M.R.I.A. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. 8vo. pp. xxii. 506. Oxford. 1824.

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HE Book of Psalms is styled by St. Augustine, a kind of abridgement of the whole Scripture. The choice and 'flower of all things profitable in other books,' says Hooker, the Psalms do more briefly contain, and more movingly also express, by reason of that poetical form wherewith they are written.' As prophetical records, as devotional compositions, and as the sublimest, as well as the most ancient specimens of lyric poetry, it is impossible to venerate too highly this portion of the Hebrew Scriptures. But the veneration in which the Psalms have been held, has been singularly disconnected with either the rational interpretation or the practical use of this part of Holy Writ. From the Talmudists and the Christian Fathers, down to Hutchinson and Horsley, the obscurity of these sacred compositions has afforded room for displaying the perverted ingenuity of mystical commentators, who have refined away both their beauty and meaning, till these inspired poems and prophecies have been converted into most recondite enigmas. The mode of proceeding adopted by these interpreters, may be compared to the conduct of the minehunters of South America, who, in searching for hidden treasure, wash away into the rivers the fertile soil from which they might have obtained their bread. Some of the Fathers have discovered mysteries in the order of the Psalms. Thus, Hilary, Ambrose, and Origen have thought they could trace the succession of events in the life of David; others have detected VOL. XXIII. N.S. B

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