Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_The Chronological New Testament, in which the Text of the Authorised
Version is newly divided into Paragraphs and Sections, with the Dates
and Places of Transactions marked, the Marginal Renderings of the
Translators, many Parallel Illustrative Passages printed at length,
brief Introductions to each Book, and a Running Analysis of the
Epistles_, is another and most praiseworthy attempt "to make our
invaluable English version more intelligible to devout students of the
Word of God," by the various helps in arrangement and printing set forth
in the ample title-page which we have just transcribed. All such
endeavors to increase that "knowledge which maketh wise unto salvation"
carry within themselves the elements of success; and we shall be the
more glad to find that the present work meets with the patronage it
deserves, as we may then look for the Old Testament on the same plan.
Those of our readers who remember the parallel which Bishop Ken drew
between himself and
Bless'd Gregory, whose patriarchal height
Shed on the Eastern sphere celestial light,
and who may desire to read the life of him whom that great ornament of
our Church chose for his model, will thank us for drawing their
attention to _Gregory of Nazianzum--a Contribution to the Ecclesiastical
History of the Fourth Century_, by Professor Ullman of Heidelberg, which
has just been translated by Mr. G. V. Cox. The translator has for the
present confined himself to that part of Dr. Ullman's volume which
relates to the life of Gregory, and is therefore more attractive to the
general reader; the dogmatic part, or the statements and examination of
Gregory's theological opinions, being for the present withheld. In this
we think Mr. Cox has done wisely, since we have no doubt that the
present volume will be read with great interest by many who will gladly
dwell upon the life and practice of this distinguished Father of the
Church, but who would be turned aside from its perusal, from their
unwillingness or inability to enter upon any such investigation as is
implied in the critical examination of Gregory's theological opinions.
We have again to thank Dr. Latham for an important contribution towards
a proper knowledge of our own tongue; and it would be difficult to point
out a more successful combination of ethnological and philological
knowledge than is exhibited in his newly-published _Hand-book of the
English Language, for the Use of Students of the Universities and Higher
Classes of Schools_. We cannot of course enter into any analysis of a
work which is as replete with interest and amusement as it is with
instruction; but we may point out as peculiarly deserving of attention
the first part, which treats of the Germanic origin of the English
language; and the second, which treats of its history and analysis. We
are glad to see Dr. Latham's view of the Frisian share in the invasion
of this country.
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