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hb& elegant letter which I last week had the honour of receiving from you ; and to assure you that nothing but the pressure of numerous , and some of them important matters , would have prevented me from making a more early acknowledgment- I am not only no stranger to the respectability of your general
character , but I have read with great attention and great satisfaction several of the works by which you have adorned your profession , and endeavoured ably to enlighten aud improve mankind : you have a right therefore to call upon my gratitude as well as my politeness , when you are
disposed to ask my opinion upou any intended publication ; aud you may depend both upon ray earnestness to judge rightly , and my readiness to communicate my judgment fairly aud respectfully . I ought to do so whether I consider the importance of the subject , or the abilities and
virtues of the writer . Last night I received a copy of your work on Medical Jurisprudence , and this morning I have given to the perusal of it all the time I could spare from some critical inquiries which I am making for the use of an old friend , and the result of which I must
communicate by to-day ' s post . I have read the three first chapters , and in no one instance did I feel one moment ' s hesitation in assenting to your sage and humane observations . The sight of Beccaria ' s name forcibly hurried away my eye to the last chapter $ and there I fouud some difficulties which ,
atter reconsidering them , I shall take the liberty to communicate . You will excu . se me for itating that my father was an apothecary and surgeon at Harrow ; that he was a man of very robust and vigorous intellect ; that he wished to educate me in tfiat profession which boasts of Dr . Percival as one of its
noblest ornaments ; that for two or three years I attended to his business ; and that i have long been in the habit of reading on medical subjects . The great advantage I . have derived from these circumstances
is , that I have found opportunities for conversation and friendship with a class of men whom , after a long and attentive survey of character , I have found to be the most enlightened professional persons in the circle of human arts and sciences .
Give me leave to congratulate you on the happy and honourable situation of your very - accomplished son , and to express my sincere hope that in his encreasing knowledge and future prospects you may find some consolation for your melancholy loss .
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M > 6 * Testimony of Josephus t < r Christ .
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Testimony <^ Josephus C&rish - THE passage in Jose ^ hus rel ating ^ to our Loird has been so often referred to in our numbers , that we judge our readers will be gratified with the following translation , from the Revue Encyclopedique , of a review of a late German publication on the
subject . Ueber des Flavins Josephus Zeug-nis von Chrlsto—On the Testimony of Josephus concerning' Jesus Christ . By C . F . Bcehinert ! Leipsic , 1823 .
The authenticity of a passage in the historian Josephus is here treated of . M . Eichstnedt , in his ingenious and profound researches ., seemed to put an end to the discussion of this
subject , by proving tliat Josephus was not the author of the passage respecting Jesus Christ , and attributing the interpolation to a Christian who lived at the end of the third century . M . Boehmert , however , is not afraid of opposing so formidable an authority . He shews calmness and erudition in
examining the question , and what he says merits the serious attention of his adversaries . He seeks the proof of the authenticity of the passage relating to Jesus in the life and the character of Josephus . His first chapter is dedicated to the life of that
author which was needful to enable liina in the second to point out his character . This task was , neverthe-r less , attended with difficulty : Josephus was frequently inconsistent with himself in his actions . M . Boehmert
proves that he was governed by ambition , and by an anxiety for his personal safety : but the Jewish historian in some measure atoned for these defects by his uprightness ; for he loved truth , and he was exempt from the narrow views of his nation . From his
inconsistencies , M- Boehmert brings out his characteristic points , as a man , an Israelite and an historian . He considers that , as an historian , he was not only capable of narrating events which passed under his own eve , but
that he was firmly resolved to declare impartially all that he knew to be truth . M . Bcehmert gives examples in proof of this assertion . Being thus qualified , has Josephus spoken of Jrsus Christ ? Has he spoken of him as he is spok < en of in the passage in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/28/
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