-- -Les Prophètes, nouvellement traduits sur l'hébreu, avec des explications et des notes critiques, viz. : - Esaïe. Paris, 1820, 2 vols. 8vo. Jérémie, avec un appendice, Paris, 1821, two 8vo. parts. The appendix to this version of the prediction of Jeremiah, contains the Lamentations, and the Apocryphal book of Baruch, -- - - Ezéchiel. Paris 1821, 2 vols. 8vo. Daniel. Paris, 1822, 2 vols. 8vo. Petits Prophètes. Paris, 1822, 2 vols. 8vo. "This '(Jérémie) is a continuation of the great work of the President Agier, and merits the same degree of praise we have already bestowed on his translations of the Psalms, the Prophecies of Isaiah, and other scriptural prophecies. The author is ever distinguished as an enlightened christian, á skilful hebraist, a profound critic, a candid theologian, a faithful translator, and a fine writer."-Revue Encyclopédique, vol. 10, p. 179. ALLETZ. (Pons. Aug.) Dictionnaire des Conciles, contenant une somme de tous les conciles généraux, nationaux, &c. Paris 1773, 1 vol. 8vo. We only mention this book that no lapsis should appear in our account of Theological Works. This edition is preferable to that of 1758. To this should be added the Traitê de l'Etude des Conciles, par Salmon, Paris, 1724, 4to. It is a very good book. Barruel (Abbé.) Histoire du Clergé de France, pendant la Révolution Française. Paris, 1804, 2 vols. 8vo. "With the horrors of the revolution before his eyes, the Abbé would have been more or less than man, if he had not felt them strongly: it was natural that he should write as he felt. This work has been universally read, passed through many editions, and much criticised; yet not a single fact mentioned in it, has been disproved."-Works of C. Butler, vol. 5, p. 251. BAYLE (Pierre.) Critique Générale de l'Histoire du Calvinisme de Maimbourg. Villa Franca, 1684, 4 vols. 12mo. "The fashion of the age made the philosopher Bayle enter the lists of controversy, into which he brought with him a measure of knowledge, precision and candour, as well as entertainment, seldom exhibited there. In his reasonings concerning infallibility and the rights of an erroneous conscience, you see the accurate and enlightened dialectician; but he is rather diffuse. No man was ever better qualified than Bayle for assuming the character of his adversary, shewing his system in a new garb, and for availing himself of all the places open to assault, which is one of the greatest advantages of the sceptical philosophy. His chapters on the marriage of the clergy are full of pleasantry, learning, and knowledge of human nature; and his two letters on the love of parents towards their children, and on jealousy, contain a profound philosophy, in which he unfolds a chain of prejudices connected with our existence, necessary for our happiness, and intended by the supreme being to supply the place of a reason too exalted for the bulk of mankind, and too weak to be a principle of action."-Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, vol. 2, p. 300. BEAUSOBRE (Isaac de) Histoire de Manichée et du Manichéisme. Am sterdam, 1734-39, 2 vols. 4to. "This work of Beausobre, of which I have made great use, contains not only a laboured history of Manichees, but likewise several entertaining and useful digressions concerning the opinions of the heathen philosophers, and the most early christian sects. I wish some learned man might have sufficient leisure and encouragement to give us a handsome edition of it in English."-Lardner's Works. BEAUVAIS (Marie de) Sermons. Paris, 1807, 4 vols. 12mo. Barbier in his Bibl. d'un Homme de Goût, considers these sermons as worthy a place amongst the most celebrated productions of the same kind. It is to be regretted that the discourse pronounced on Holy Thursday, 1774, the year in which Louis XV. died, does not appear in the collection. It will be recollected that the preacher, in alluding to the scriptural passage "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."(Jonah III. 4.) seemed to predict a death, of which, at that time, there was no indication. "There is no christian sect to whom these sermons would not be applicable. They might with as much propriety be delivered at Naples, Petersburgh or London, as at Paris: and this we consider to be no faint eulogium.”—Chénier's Tableau de la Littérature Française, p. 146. BERGIER (Abbé Nic. Syl.) Dictionnaire de Théologie, extrait de l'Encyclopédie Méthodique, &c. Paris, 1826, 8 vols, BARRUEL (Abbé.) Histoire du Clergé de France, pendant la Révolution Française. Paris, 1804, 2 vols. 8vo. "With the horrors of the revolution before his eyes, the Abbé would have been more or less than man, if he had not felt them strongly: it was natural that he should write as he felt. This work has been universally read, passed through many editions, and much criticised; yet not a single fact mentioned in it, has been disproved."-Works of C. Butler, vol. 5, p. 251. BAYLE (Pierre.) Critique Générale de l'Histoire du Calvinisme de Maimbourg. Villa Franca, 1684, 4 vols. 12mo. "The fashion of the age made the philosopher Bayle enter the lists of controversy, into which he brought with him a measure of knowledge, precision and candour, as well as entertainment, seldom exhibited there. In his reasonings concerning infallibility and the rights of an erroneous conscience, you see the accurate and enlightened dialectician; but he is rather diffuse. No man was ever better qualified than Bayle for assuming the character of his adversary, shewing his system in a new garb, and for availing himself of all the places open to assault, which is one of the greatest advantages of the sceptical philosophy. His chapters on the marriage of the clergy are full of pleasantry, learning, and knowledge of human nature; and his two letters on the love of parents towards their children, and on jealousy, contain a profound philosophy, in which he unfolds a chain of prejudices connected with our existence, necessary for our happiness, and intended by the supreme being to supply the place of a reason too exalted for the bulk of mankind, and too weak to be a principle of action."-Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, vol. 2, p. 300. BEAUSOBRE (Isaac de) Histoire de Manichée et du Manichéisme. Am sterdam, 1734-39, 2 vols. 4to. "This work of Beausobre, of which I have made great use, contains not only a laboured history of Manichees, but likewise several entertaining and useful digressions concerning the opinions of the heathen philosophers, and the most early christian sects. I wish some learned man might have sufficient leisure and encouragement to give us a handsome edition of it in English."-Lardner's Works. BEAUVAIS (Marie de) Sermons. Paris, 1807, 4 vols. 12mo. Barbier in his Bibl. d'un Homme de Goût, considers these sermons as worthy a place amongst the most celebrated productions of the same kind. It is to be regretted that the discourse pronounced on Holy Thursday, 1774, the year in which Louis XV. died, does not appear in the collection. It will be recollected that the preacher, in alluding to the scriptural passage "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." (Jonah III. 4.) seemed to predict a death, of which, at that time, there was no indication. "There is no christian sect to whom these sermons would not be applicable. They might with as much propriety be delivered at Naples, Petersburgh or London, as at Paris: and this we consider to be no faint eulogium."-Chénier's Tableau de la Littérature Française, p. 146. BERGIER (Abbé Nic. Syl.) Dictionnaire de Théologie, extrait de l'Encyclopédie Méthodique, &c. Paris, 1826, 8 vols, |