the doctrines of the reformation in general, or any cardinal doctrine in particular." Of this sentiment the liberality is equal to the correctness in the preceding statement: the Doctor's charity is excelled only by his modesty.

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The style of the "sketch" is sometimes chargeable with harsh ness, and sometimes with want of precision; but its chief fault is that refinement, which, in a young man's writing, might be called finical. In the ardour of the author's feelings, his nominative case forgets the verb; he calls the late lieutenant governor Phillips a paragon of publick spirit" and of the Academy he prays, "May this monu. ment of his wisdom and piety be as lasting as time; and may the expansion of it stimulate many to come and do likewise." We believe the "expansion" of a "monument" seldom "stimulates" spectators, except to run away. Of the connection between Phillips's Academy and the Theological Seminary, the Doctor says, justice and gratitude require us to recognize the for mer as the radix of the latter, and as the embryo of its future manhood." As christians, we hope that the pretty motto of a picture in our old Lily's grammar, radix doctrinæ amara, fructus dulcis, may never be reversed in its application to this Institution; but, as simple readers, we should adopt, for the Doctor, the words of humble Moth, respecting the erudite Holofernes, Nathaniel, and Armado: "They have been at a feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

The sermon of Dr. Dwight is judicious in its subject, regular in its division, well adapted in its sentiments, but frequently impure in its style. All, who heard it with de light, however, will peruse it with

pleasure. Of the style we may be permitted to notice a slight fault, since the high reputation of the autor, which this sermon, perhaps, will not diminish, might give it currency without examination. "A cold preacher," says the Doctor, "naturally makes a frozen audience," which to us seems a gelid pun. "Should he escape this ceusure, the sympathy (if I may call it such) of a stagnant countenance, a marbled posture, and a lifeless tongue, will reach every heart in his congregation." Polonius would have quarrelled with one of these combinations. “The beautified Ophelia. That's a vile phrase; beautified is a vile phrase." To marble applies not to posture, but to variegations, of colour. Too many similar violations of pure English idioms, and some of gram. mar, may be found.

The charge of the Rev. Jonathan French is simple, affectionate, pious, monitory, evangelical, and excellent throughout.

The right hand of fellowship, by the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. is historical and solemn; and would be affectionate, but that the Doctor of Divinity has confuted some of the observations of the Doctor of Laws, and overturned the powerful argument, we mentioned before, "From the days of Samuel the prophet, theological institutions have existed in the world, whose object has been to educate young men," c. says Dr. Morse. "An institution, unnamed in the annals of this country, and of Europe," &c. says Dr. Pearson. Dr. Dwight's sermon, too, speaks largely of the universities of the Levites, of the schools of the prophets, &c. And can it be believed, that any christian nation has neglected to found and endow. institutions for instruction in

our holy religion? What were the monasteries of all the religious orders in popedom? What are the universities of the established churches in the two divisions of Great-Britain, and of the Dissenters' academies in England? What were the colleges of the Jesuits, espepecially, all over the world, except in our own country? And what is the meaning of "Christo et Ecclesia" on the arms of our own Alma Mater, founded and endowed by our pious ancestors?

We will notice one other disagreement. "The LORD hath prospered, and, we confidently trust, will prosper, an Institution, which you bove been eminently instrumental, with others, in raising to advance his glory," &c. When Dr. Pearson, as before quot ed, wrote: “That so many persons, in different sections of the commu

nity, should at the same period, and without communication, be impress.. ed with the necessity of such an Institution," &c. every reader understood it as a proof of the government of an omnipotent power, as it was certainly manifested without the intervention of human exertion in “impressing" "at the same moment" on the hearts of certain persons, who never communicated together, a sense of the necessity of this Seminary. But the immediate agency of heaven is no longer discerned; the beautiful fabrick of providential favour is totally overthrown, even by the candour of Dr. Morse, one of the most zealous favourers of the Institution. It is really a pity, that the Doctor, who delivered the historick sketch of the Theological Institution, was ignorant of its history.

So many valuable books, particularly in classical and oriental literature, have been published by the University of Oxford during the last fifty years, that it will gratify, we doubt not, some of our readers to know what has been lately done, and what is now doing, at the Clarendon press.

Dr. White, author or editor of many well known works, has just published the second volume of his Novum Testamentum Græcum; with the various readings, which, in Greisbach's judgment, are to be preferred, or to be considered as equal to the received text. It is not necessary to add, that the learned Professor published Testamenti Novi Versionem Syriacam Philoxenianam at the Clarendon press, in 1778, the Diatessaron in 1803, and the Speci

men Historia Arabum, by Dr. Po. cocke, in 1806; nor that he has also published the Political and Military Institutes of Tamerlane, with a first volume of Ægyptiaca. A second volume of the latter will not be pub. lished by Dr. White, as intended. But the learned Professor, Anthony Sylvestre de Saci, of Paris, editor of Chrestomathie Arabe, will give a French translation, accompanied with the Arabic original and notes, of that work, which was to have composed Dr. White's second vol ume. Professor White is also pre paring for the press, the Sylloge Crisews Greisbach.

Mr. Mozely, a gentleman of this university, distinguished for his acquaintance with Arabic literature, has just published his Vita Abdolla tiphi, in Arabic and Latin, a work

to which Arabic sholars have for some time been looking with considerable expectation.

It will afford pleasure to our classical readers to hear, that a new edition of Hephæstion's Enchiridion on Greek Metres, a work much wanted, is now in the Clarendon press, and that the editor is so excellent a scholar as Mr. Gaisford, of Christ-church.

Biblical students will be glad to be informed, that though Dr. Holmes has been some time dead, his transcripts of MSS. are, not lost. Of his Old Testament, from the Greek version of the Septuagint, with various readings, the Pentateuch, with the Prophet Daniel, and a General Preface, have already appeared. They were published in separate numbers. Two gentlemen of the university are now em ployed in collating the transcripts of MSS. brought by Dr. Holmes into this country, and another number of this work may be expected soon. The following works are also in the press Lowth de Sacra Poesi Hebræorum, 2 vol. 8vo. Euripides Græce, Notis Musgrave, 8vo. Sophocles Græce, notis Elmsley, 8vo. Wyttenbachi Animadversiones in

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