meaning another. But he thinks too highly of his own, and too lightly of my talents, if he supposes me incapable of detecting his casuistry. At present I have confined myself to the fair and legitimate meaning, deducible from his supposed honest language. But if hereafter he resorts to any quibbles, he may rest assured that such an attempt will only bring additional discomfiture on his head. C. J. B. says, that for the last ten years of his life his employments have rendered it utterly impossible for him to hunt through literary journals for the casual emendations of other scholars, and in many cases even to look at them. This assertion, if it were true, would only prove that he is sadly negligent in his duty as an editor of a Greek author, for the improvement of whom some materials will be found in the periodical publications of that period. But what is really the fact? Nothing more nor less than this. That during the whole ten years past, not only has he read, but absolutely been continually writing in, various reviews, no matter how politically opposed to each other, yet to him all friends, as being equally the vehicle for his sneers and insinuations; and though it appears that he so little values his own writings, as not to remember them himself, yet, in the confidence of his own real, and on the part of others presumed, forgetfulness, he has thoughtlessly exposed his falsehoods to detection. Thus have I not only supported the accusation originally made, but destroyed also every atom of the defence, two instances alone excepted, where I confess my zeal has outstripped my discretion. And I know not how I can better close the subject than by quoting the very words of C. J. B. himself in the Edinburgh Rev. No. xxxvii. p. 508, with only such alteration as the present case requires : "I now take leave of Dr. Blomfield, having to apologise to my readers for the extreme prolixity of this article, which I have protracted to so great a length solely for the satisfaction of the gentleman who is the object of it. Having given a sort of a general notice of his misdeeds, and pointed out a few of his principal plagiarisms, I was concerned to find that Dr. Blomfield accused me of acting too harshly towards him. I thought it, therefore, but justice to make amends, and, in the present article, to speak as mildly as I could, of his confessed plagiarisms and convicted falsehoods. It remains for Dr. Blomfield to judge whether he has gained any thing by the change." Calculating on the certainty that C. J. B. must reply to this exposure of his defence, I beg leave to forewarn him that in my rebutter to his rejoinder, he will find fresh instances of his Plagiarisms, and a collection of the Beauties of Blomfield, extracted from various Reviews, in which he has abused those alone, whom he deemed unwilling or unable to reply. Nor shall he derive the least benefit from the caution through which he has abstained from provoking by word or deed those, who, should he be disposed to retaliate for the acts of one upon the head of another, will bawl in his ear: Quid immerentes hospites vexas, canis, Ignavus adversum lupos? Quin huc inanes, si potes, vertis minas, But to triumph thus over a prostrate foe has been considered, from the age of Homer to the present period, as the mark of no generous mind. Nor should I have felt even the wish to use the language of exultation against a crest-fallen antagonist, were not C. J. B. that individual, who has shut himself out from all claim to mercy, by defying again the hand that has detected his former plagiarisms and his present falsehoods. Had he, indeed, in his defence, confined himself to an humble confession of his guilt, and pleaded for his manifold sins in pilfering, the poverty of his imagination, and his incurable desire to gain, without knowing how, the reputation of a first-rate Grecian, I could have viewed his errors with an eye of compassion, and would have gently rebuked him for his hopeless aspirations. But when, in utter forgetfulness of his own impotence, he has chosen to enter the ring against him, who has not unadvisedly commenced the fight, it is his own fault, if he has met with one, who, non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo, sticks like a leech, nor drops till full of blood. 425 ON TWO PASSAGES IN VIRGIL'S GEORGICS. It is now generally agreed, that, in settling the text of any ancient writer, conjectural emendation is to be avoided as much as possible. Wetstein's learning and critical boldness are well known; yet he says in the prolegomena to his edition of the New Testament, that, "though he thought that the greater part of the conjectural emendations, which he had noticed, were both learned and ingenious, and found nothing to blame in those, by whom they were suggested, he still was bound to confess ingenuously, that scarcely two of them had his cordial approbation." This observation applies particularly to those authors, the manuscripts of whose works are numerous. Acquiescing in the truth of this observation, I yet venture to point out two passages in the Georgics of Virgil, which, though they exist in all the manuscripts, and I may add in all the printed editions of them, of which we are possessed, appear to me to be, one of them an evident transposition, the other, either that, or an evident interpolation. 1. I beg my reader to place before him the beginning of the second Georgic, and to read from its first to its 47th verse; and then to ask himself whether the verses from the 38th verse to the end of the passage should not be expunged from the place in which they stand, and inserted between verse 7 and verse 8. The poet first mentions, generally, his subject; then addresses Bacchus, the founder of it; then proceeds to the didactic; and then, on a sudden, and without any connexion with what precedes or follows, introduces a second address :-this second address, if placed inmediately after the first, will be felt to follow it naturally, and not to be discordant with the verses which, on this supposition, it will immediately precede, or those by which it will be immediately followed.-It may be added, that the plan will then immediately accord with the opening of the first Georgic. 2. I must next request my reader to place under his eyes the 3d Georgic; and passing over, if he can, the 48 first verses, to begin with the 49th, and thence read-he certainly will not find it a labor-till the 129th: and then consider whether the 120th, 121st, and 122d verses either are not an interpolation, or should not be inserted between the 96th and 97th, and make one sentence, not with the verses preceding, but with those that follow the 97th. I beg leave to ask,-As the text now stands, to what verse or sentence can the word " Quamvis" be applied? I shall add no more,-in fact inquiries of this nature are rather to be decided by feeling than argument. R. NOTICE OF An Introduction to the critical Study and Knowledge of the HOLY SCRIPTURES. By the Rev. T. HARTWELL HORNE, M. A., &c. &c. &c. Second Edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. Four large volumes, 8vo. Pr. 31. 3s. In a preceding number' we submitted to our readers a brief notice of the first edition of this most valuable of modern theo logical publications. Impressed with the conviction that the laborious research, the extensive reading, and undoubted talent of the author, deserved the most decided and almost unqualified approbation and praise, we did not hesitate to bestow our eulogy in such unmeasured language, that we must have excited the contempt of our readers if the work had been unfavorably received. We willingly incurred the danger. Far from fearing to commit ourselves, we were willing to pledge on this truly useful work, whatever credit we might have sometimes obtained from those articles which have been most generally approved. We have not been mistaken in our estimate of the discernment of the public; we have not been disappointed of our anticipated gratification in the universal approbation with which Mr. Horne has been so justly rewarded. The first edition has been received in the most favorable manner. "In addition to the extensive circulation which the work has obtained in the Universities, and other theological seminaries in England, it has recently been adopted as a text-book in the College at Princeton, New Jersey, and in the protestant Episcopal seminary at Newhaven, in North America." The career of the work has but begun. We have no doubt but that it will become the standard reference and text Class. Journ. September, 1819. book of our several Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, and will find a place in the library, not only of our candidates for orders, and theological students in general, but be received with pleasure by those who have completed their preliminary studies, and have made extensive progress in the science of theology. The first edition of Mr. Horne's work was divided into three parts. 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Volume 1. contains a critical enquiry into the genuineness, authenticity, uncorrupted preservation, and inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; including, among other subjects, a copious investigation of the testimonies of profane authors to the leading facts recorded in the Scriptures, particularly a new branch of evidence for their credibility, which is furnished by coins, medals, inscriptions, and ancient structures. This is followed by a full view of the arguments afforded by miracles and prophecy for the inspiration of the Scriptures, and a discussion of the whole of their internal evidence, furnished by the doctrines, the precepts, and the harmony, &c. &c. of the Bible; together with a refutation of the very numerous objections which have been urged against the Scriptures in recent deistical publications. An appendix to |