And in the feventeenth: "My father's foes clapt him by cank red hate Our author feems particularly fond of the Tù yehoor; for, in the twenty-fecond ftanza, he again cracks his jeft in the character of his uncle, who is made to fay, "Our fun, eclips'd, a long time did not shine, No joys approach'd near unto Loughtonhoufe: My fifers they did nothing else but whine, Thefe partial ftrictures upon trivial failings will not, I truft, be fuppofed as intended to invalidate the general merit of the performance. Were I difpofed to cavil, it would not perhaps be difficult to point out other inaccuracies, and defective expreflions; but the fuperior beauties of the piece are fo prominent, that the reader ought generously to adopt the custom of good painters, and throw all the lefs pleafing objects into the back-ground. Let us, therefore, peruse the character our author gives of the queen (vide 68th and following ftanzas): "For as this lady was a princefs born, So the in pincely virtues did excell: Humble fhe was, and no degrees would corn; To talk with pooreft fouls the liked well. "Virtue from her ran fwiftly, like a fream; The deceafed knight's defcription (ftanza 93, &c.) of his father's conduct, at their fi it meeting after Sr Nicholas had received the order of knighthood, is fo highly interesting, that I flatter myleif it may not prove unacceptable to your readers; I fhall, therefore, readily tranfcribe it for their petulal: "Now, fomething gained, I, licens'd to abfent Myfelf a fpace; a progrefs rode [went: Unto my friends; with me my wife there And with my father we awhile abode. To me he fhew'd good countenance openly: But yet alone he checkt me bitterly. "He thumpt me on the breaft, and thus began: Sir knight! firknave! a foolish boy you are: And yet thou think' thyfelf a goodly man! Why should't thou fcorn thy father's daily fare? Orfend me word when I fhould fee thee here? As who should fay I should provide good cheer. "Too bafe for thee thou thought'it thy fa ther's food. But fay 'tis fo; I tell thee in good footh, My carter's meat 1 think is far too good For fuch an one who brings fo dainty tooth. I fee thou grow'ft into difdain of me, Wherefore, know this, I careless am of thee!" And the following, in which he treats of his father's death, after the aggrandifement of his family, is equally moving; flanza 98. "When all of us at years; when two made knights; When five of us had been of parli'ment; All forward in the world: when all these fights [he went. No boot to ftrive, when death lifts hence to Our father faw,-then, fummon'd hence, Who is no fparing judge, but vifits all. [call; "His want, though fomewhat I hewail'd with The mifs of himyet did I not difcern: [tears; My lofs could not fee through youthful years. But, all too late, at length this I did learn, That be, who feeth bis father laid in grave, May leave to lock fo fure a fiaff to bave.” To enumerate all the excellences of it entire; I shall therefore conclude my this legend would be nearly to tranfcribe prefent communication with recommending to the attention 6 your correfpondents the elegant apotrophe to Hote, which begins at the 196th ftanzt, and ends with the 204th. Mr. URBAN, W. B. Dec 10. IN Thomson's Scafons, which I never read without fresh pieafure, I late y obferved a contradiction. In Spring, he fays, But Man, whom Nature form'd of milder And taught alone to weep[clay, In Autumn, in a defeription of itaghouting: He stands at bay; [fae. The big round tears run down his dappled The former feems taken from the 15th Satire of Juvenal Mollisima corda Humano generi dare le Macura fatetur, Quæ lachrymas dedit, hæc noftri pars optima felves peaceably in our respective states and fenfus. Crocodiles tears are proverbial, but whether more than proverbial I do not know. Another thing occurred to me laft fummer, on a re-perufal of Thomfon, as a mistake in that generally accurate defcriber of Nature. In Summer, he fays, On every hedge The glow-worm lights his gem. To the best of my recollection, I never faw a glow-worm on a hedge, but always on the ground. If your very agreeable correfpondent, the Southern Faunit, will notice this trifle, he can fet me right if I am wrong. Mr. James Goodyer, p. 910, asks the name of a publisher of a treatise on colours abour ten years ago, who lived near New Church, or St. Clement's. One Alexander Emerfon, or Emerton, fold colours at reduced prices in that neighbourhood fome years ago; I be lieve much more than ten. When a man, like this correfpondent of yours, communicates to the publick an easy remedy for a trouble fome complaint, he deferves public thanks; and, the leaft return that can be made by those who benefit from it is to let him know they have done fo. I thank him for a complete cure of a corn by following his directions, viz. to wet it with fafting-fpittle, and cover it with a iece of whited-brown paper. The lighthoufes on the Spurn point to be taken down and re-built by act 6 Geo. III. cap. 31. Q. X. ( relations. For, fociety being nothing but an united multitude, it is indifpenfably neceffary, to the preservation of its union, that every individual member should peaceably comport order wherein he is placed. Every man is himfelf towards every one in that degree and obliged, as he is a member of human fociety, because, therwife he will neceffarily render to comport himf-If peaceably with all men; himself a public peft and nuisance. For, fo long as he is of an unquiet and turbulent spirit, inftead of being an help he must neceflarily be a difeafe to every community of which he is a member. Verily, methinks (fays he) the mott horrid and frightful idea I can form fnarling and quarrelfeme spirits, crowded, like in my own mind is that of a company of fo many corpions and adders, into a den together, and there forced, by the venomoufneís of their tempers, to live in continual mutiny, and be perpetually biffing and fpitting poifon at one another. religion (he tells us), whofe great design is But our bleffed to advance our happiness, hath taken abundant care to educate our minds in quietness and peace. For, hither tend all thofe precepts of it, which require us to follow peace with ions among us, and avoid them. all men, and to mark them that caufe divifign of all which is to bind us over to the ftuThe deftrain us by the ftrictest obligations from all dy and practice of unity and concord, and refchifmatical, factious, and turbulent, behaviour in thofe facred or civil focieties whereof we are members." The fame author has a great deal more to the fame purpofe well worth the perufal of Chriftians of all denominations. Yours, &c. P.S. There is one remark in the notes J. M. on Job. xxxix. 23, p. 892, which feems to me to be a proper one, viz. that the word fignifies a javelin, and not a fhield; and, accordingly, Tremelius tranflates it lancea. J. M. Holiness to the Lord. Not fo; but "the Holy One of Jehovah." On a parallel pailage, Ibid. xxxix. 35, is this note, Holiness to the Lord; rather, what authority Mr. Romaine fupports "the Holy One of jehovah." Upon this alteration I am fomewhat at a iofs to conceive. The fame expreffion, "Holinels to [unto] the Lord," is ufed ,קדש ליהוה צבאות words are "Holiness to the Lord of Hofts." We will now fee how the mode of tranflation, ufed by thofe learned divines who compofed the English verfion of the Bible in common ufe, is fupported by other places in Scripture. Exod. xiii. 5, "The place whereon thou ftandeft is WINDTR(the ground of holiness, or) holy ground." Ib. xv. 11: Who is like thee, glorious pain holiness." Ib. xix. 6: "And ye shall be unto me a 4) גוי קדוש kingdom of prieits, and nation of bolinefs, or); a holy' nation." 1 Chron. xvi. 29; and Palm xxix. 2, xcvi. 9: בהדרת Wortlip the Lord * 12 in the beauty of holiness." Pla. cx. 3: "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness." XX. 21: 2 Chron. "That should praise the beauty of holiness." Ibid. XXX. 27: "To the habitation of foreigners, and who have given verfions of the Bible, underfood the Hebrew words in the fame manner as the tranflators of the English Bible did, will fully appear upon an impartial examination of the paffages in their feveral operations. First, then, Junius and Tremeilius, in the two places which Mr. Romine has thought proper to correct, tranflate the words by "SANCTITAS JEHOVA;" as they likewife do in Zech. xiv. 20, Jer. ii. 3, and other places: and every schoolboy knows that "Sanctitas Jehova" fignifies holinefs to the Lord." Turn we now to "La Sainte Bible," "Revue 46 & conferée fur les Textes Hebreux & Grecs par les Pafteurs & les Profeffeurs de l'Eglife de Geneve " Here we find generally קדש ליהוה the words rendered by "la Sainteté à l'Eternel;" which expreffion alfo fignifies "HOLINESS TO THE LORD." "the From the above citations it appears, that "Holine's to the Lord" is by no means an unfaithful tranflation. It cannot be fuppofed, nor, furely, will any one contend, that Aaron was Holy One of Jehovah,” when it is confidered, that Jefus Chrift alone was the Redeemer of the world, and the Belo. ved, in whom God was well pleafed, and, confequently, the Holy One of Jehovah. Again, we are told, that the -were to be en קדש ליהוה bis holiness into the words קדשו לשמים beavens) Heaven." Ibid. xxxi. 18: 61 For, they fanctified themfelves (or made themfelves holy) in holiness, כי באמונתם יתקדשו קדש Pia. xxx 4: "At the remembrance of 1 his holiness." Pfa. xlvii. 8: God fitteth upon the throne of his holiness." Pla. lxxxix. 35: have fworn by my holinefs, that I will not be unto David." Jisi 15: "[ Ifa. "From the habitation of thy holiness." Jerem. ii. 3 Ifracl was קדש ישראל ליהוה holinefs to the Lord." Mal. ii. 11: “For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord." Other patTages might have been cited, from different parts of the Scripture, to fhew that the mode of tranflation ufed in the two places whence the notes are taken is in nowife contrary to reafon; and that other Calvinistic writers, who were graven upon a plate of pure gold, which was to be put upon the forefront of the forehead: thefe words then fignified mitre which was to be upon Aaron's Holiness to the Lord; intimating, very properly, that all who attended in the Houfe of God fhould have Holmefs to the Lord engraven upon their foreheads; i. e. that they thould be holy, entirely devoted to God, and that the glory of God should be the chief end of all their actions. This being the cafe, Aaron could not be exclufively, as the expreffion feems to intimate, the Holy One of Jehovah. If we turn to Zech. XIV 2C, where the fame words are used, toid, that "in that day fhall be upon we shall obferve that we are exprefly the bells of the horfes bolinels unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's House fhall be like the bowls before the altar, Yea, every pot in Jerufalem and in Judah fhall be bolinefs unto the Lord of Hofts: and all they that facrifice thall come and take of them, and feethe |