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have these idioms the appearance of art or design, 

 being exactly such as might be expected from 

 persons who* used a language spoken, indeed, 

 where they lived, but not the dialect of their 

 country. 



" Obscurity, from this cause, more particularly 

 applies to St. Paul's Epistles, because they were 

 designed principally for the Jews. St. Paul, 

 indeed, was born at Tarsus, and his native lan- 

 guage was therefore Greek ; but having been a 

 very zealous Jew, it was natural that his language 

 should be tinctured by Hebraisms ; and it is pro- 

 bable that had he studied to avoid the air of a 

 Celician Jew, in speaking or writing, his language 

 would not have been so well adapted to his pur- 

 pose, and would have made far less impression 

 on the multitude. 5 '* 



11th. I have made such a discovery ! I long 

 to tell you, Mamma, though I dare say you have 

 already guessed it. I have discovered that Mr. 

 Lumley is the very person whom my uncle met 

 at the harvest home, and whose history I wrote 

 to you. But I never heard my uncle speak of 

 him by any other name than Fitzroy, which I 

 now find is one of his Christian names. 



This evening we happened to be speaking of 

 accomplishments, and Miss Lumley said that she 

 had none to boast of. " I believe you know," 

 said she, " that since we left Strath Morton, a 



