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be mentioned as one of the ornaments of the 



age *. 



Many other publications appeared, du'ring the 

 eighteentli century, wliich facilitated and piomot- 

 ed the study of the Hebrew language. Among 

 these the Critica Sacra of Edward Leigh, an Eng- 

 lish divine ; the Claris L'uigucu Saiictiv of Christian 

 Stock, a learned German ; the Jamia Hcbraiccc 

 Lhigme^ of Reineccius; the Hiippkmcnta ad Lexi- 

 ca Ilebraica, by John David Michaelis ; and the 

 Instltutlones Lingiue Hebraicce, by Schroeder, all 

 of Germany, are worthy of high praise. The Trac- 

 tatus Stigmologicus of the reverend Thomas Bos- 

 ton, a pious and learned clergyman of North Bri- 

 tain, deserves a distinguished place in the list of 

 those publications which do honour to the eigh- 

 teenth century, in Hebrew hterature. It is too 

 little known, and as it is more read will be more 

 esteemed. As the seventeenth century was adorn- 

 ed by the Buxtorfs of Switzerland, and the study 

 of the oriental languages greatly promoted by their 

 example and their labours, so the eighteenth was 

 rendered remarkable by the wonderful oriental 

 learning, and the numerous publications on this 

 branch of literature, by the Michaelises, of Ger- 

 many. There were three in succession of this 

 name, who all hold high and honourable places in 

 the list of modern scholars, riz. John Henry, 

 Christian Benedict, and John David. The last. 



^- Biblia Ilchraka, oUm a Christiano Reineccio edita, nunc 

 denuo cum variis lectionibiiSy ex ingcnti codicum copia, a B. Keimi- 

 cotto ct Johan. Bern de Rossi, &c. cdidiruut J. C. D(;ederlein, ct 

 J, H. Meissuer, 8vo, Leips. 1793. 



