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Excerpt from A Literal Translation of the Prophets From Isaiah to Malachi, Vol. 2 of 5: With Notes, Critical, Philological, and Explanatory
In regard, then, to the general design of this work, and the mode of its execution, I shall easily be dispensed with from entering into any minute detail, considering how fully it has been set forth and explained at large in the Bishop of London's Preliminary Disserta tion. I have not had the vanity to think I could improve upon his plan my aim has'been to keep it constantly in view, and to follow it as closely, and with such success, as I could. It' is obvious how much benefit I must have derived from having travelled under the directions of so excellent a guide from having found the principles and rules of sacred criticism so precisely laid down and marked Out for my observance; and from having seen them so judiciously applied and reduced to practice. With my acknowledgments On this score, I Ought, perhaps, to offer an apology to his Lordship, for the freedom of my comments on some few of his particular criti cismsf But as I am sure he will readily acquit me of any disre spectful motive, so I am persuaded he would look upon it as an undue and undesirable act of complaisance, were I, in deference to his authority, induced to suppress what appeared to me, at least with some show of reason, to place any passage of holy Scripture in a clearer or better point of 'view'.
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