1804. 
Who fhould venture to neglect it entirely, 
would defervedly incur the aifapprobation 
of his audience ; but, neverthelefs, we 
certainly ought not to facrifice propriety 
to harmony 3 and I am not aware that 
there is more melody in prengung ing Cebes 
than Kedes, Stadgerite than Stagyerite. 
A siprgymas of my acquaintance, who 
was performing the fervice in a country 
church, read a leffon, in which the word 
Sychem frequently occurred, Thishe pro- 
nounced as if written Sykem, conformably 
to the original language. After he had 
finifhed the feruice, the cle rsyman for 
Whom he officiated, and who had been 
prefent auring the time, remarked that 
he obferved him to befond cf the Grecian 
mode of pronunciation, and that the word 
ought probably to be called Sy/hem. My 
friend, however, ftill adheres to his‘own 
method of pronouncing it. In one tohitary 
inftance only I have heard the name of the 
woman of Nian pronounced Mary Magda- 
dené, though it would feem that this, and 
not Mary Magdalen, as it is generally 
written and called, is the right pronuncia- 
tion, 
Sometime ago a new edition of Mo- 
relli ‘Thefaurus Grece Pot{cds was an- 
nounced to the pubsic in one of the num- 
bers of the Monthly Magazine, as intended 
to be ,publifhed by Mr. Lunn, of Soho- 
{quare. As this is a work of confiderable 
merit, and which has become extremely 
{carce, I hope Mr. Lunn will be enabled 
Jbortly to re- publifh it with additions and 
improvements, and to afford to Britifh 
youth the means of compofing in the 
Greck language with accuracy and fide- 
lity. 
Ravenflonedale, 
“December 11, 1803: 
P.S. I could wifh to become a member of 
the Society for Scientific Information, and 
requeft you will infert my name in the num- 
ber of thofe which you may have already 
received, 
J. ROBINSON. 
EE 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
CXXI. MILTON. 
E have already given Milton ate 
“place among the poets. But the 
{pirit of diflatisfaétion, as to theological 
matters, brcke out while he was in the 
univertity. We mutt, therefore, juft 
mention him among the Diffentienis in 
_ Cambridge. 
‘ Nobody pays much regard to a poet’s 
creed. Men of thought, ae particularly 
_ men of imagination, when they become 
Daniel’s Meffiah. 
Cantabrigianas 527 
thinkers, are prone to changes: they mu 
not, however, be faid to veer about like 
weathercocks, at the mere mercy of the 
winds ; but thro’ the ordinary progrefs of. 
human exiftence and human intellect, they 
rather vary like the feafons of the year. 
It is the order of thought, producing a 
variety of fentiment. i 
Mi iit was at firt a Calvin, and 
Mice s of his Life will recolleé that he 
vasa Baptift. ‘Toland in his. Life of him 
i. that he alfo became an Armivian, 
if not an Arian. Perhaps he at laft be. 
came a kind of Quaker, his confidential 
amanuenfis being of that perfuafion. He 
went to no piace of worfhip, nor, though 
weil acquainted with the Scriptures, and 
a ftudent in them, had he any family-wor- 
{hip. 
Bifhop Newton fays, that no fuch man as 
Milton-ever became an unveliever. Jobne 
fon fpeaks more like an accurate man, 
It is much eafier to fay what he was not, 
than what he was. 
CXXII.—WHISTON’S MEMOIRS. 
The foilowing Extracts are made from 
William Whitton’s Memoirs written by 
himéfelf, 
<‘ When Dr. Bentley was courting his 
lady, who was a molt excellent Chrittian 
woman, he had like to have lo!t her, by 
ftarting to her an objeétion againit the 
Book of Daniel. He aimed alfo to pick 
a quarrel with fome niceties in Daniel's 
chronology, and fuppofed the book to 
have been written after the time of Onias, 
the high-prie#, and that this Onias was 
In fhort he was very 
defirous of getting rid of the authority of 
the Book of Daniel. Yet when he was 
put in mind how cur blefied Saviour ex- 
pressly quoted this book, as written by 
Daniel the Prophet himielf, he told Dr. 
Clarke, from whom I had it, that.at firft 
this made his hairs ftand an end, but that 
at laft he pretended, that was only done 
ad hominem, as we fpeak, or by ak of 
condefcenfion to the Jewifh prejudices. 
He alfotried torun down the Apocalypfe, 
as not written by the-apottle John, &c 
He allo talked ludicroufly of this authors” 
heads and berus, &c. Thefe accounts I 
had from his own mouth. But what he 
faid of Ifaiah’s naming Cyrus before he 
was born. viz. that he {uppofed it an in- 
terpolation, I had, at fecond hand, from a 
learned bifhop; nor need any one hereafter 
wonder at Dr. Bentley’s {cepticifm as to 
both the Old and New Teftament.. But 
take notice that I only fay {cepticifm, not 
fidelity.” 
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