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into the bargain, still one more from the last author ; and a spick 
and span new citation from T ertullian. His annotator, Barbeyrac, 
out of sheer envy, spite, and vexation, because these annotations 
of the author, rendered unnecessary those of his commentator^ 
most seditiously, and in contempt of his superiors, declares, or, mid 
ista loca , si duo Jiriora exci/iias , fiarum ad rem refer unt. In the 
same prudent spirit of leaning upon sage authorities (upon a brok- 
en reed as Horn Tooke, of seditious memory, Would call it) my* 
lord Monboddo, having asserted, that u when a man opines, ho 
must opine some thing; and therefore the subject of an opinion 
is not nothing, 5 ’ does not venture to turn out into the world so pro- 
found an observation, unprotected ; he therefore fortifies it by the 
authority of Aristotle. So in later times, the very learned Dr. 
Magee, now professor of mathematics in the college at Dublin, 
proves the doctrine of atonement and vicarious suffering, the ab- 
solute inefficacy of repentance, and that without the shedding of 
blood there can be no remission, by the general prevalence of hu- 
man sacrifices throughout the ancient and modern world. This is 
a doctrine, which if an unlearned Christian finds clearly laid down 
in his bible, he adopts at once, and looks no further. Not so the 
learned doctor. He brings his case into court with a full deter- 
mination to make security doubly sure. He therefore cites, as 
witnesses in his behalf, authors of all ages and nations, ancient 
and modern, of all ranks and descriptions, original and at second 
hand, in most erudite and overwhelming confusion. To be sure, 
had he arranged and marshalled them either in order of date, or 
reputation, or language, or subject matter' — 'had he distinguished 
between original and hearsay testimony, or between the rules of 
credit or credibility, he might perhaps have escaped some legal 
objections to testimony, but he would have lost ground perhaps in 
the effect and grandeur of display. 
First he offers to the court, Herodotus, and Porphyry, and St. 
I Augustin, and M. de Paau w : then Sanconiathon, as quoted by Philo, 
as quoted by Eusebius. Then Keisler the modern, and Diodorus the 
ancient, and Manetho the Egyptian as cited by Plutarch; (He forgot 
. Berosus, who generally composes one of the firm of Sanconialhqn 
Manetho and Co.) These are backed by Murtadi the Arabian, who is 
supported by Mr. Maurice the Englishiiian, and M. Savarythe 
Frenchman. Then we have an account of the oblations of the Chinese 
monarch Ching-tang from Martin’s historia Sinensis : and those of 
the Persians from Herodotus, and Xenophon, and Arrian,. and Strabo, 
and Suklas, whose evidence (to clear it from all objection) is tri- 
