The life of Andrew Melville - 1819 Author:Thomas M'Crie Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the Greek New Testament, accompanied with a Latin translation and notes, whatever defects may now be discovered in them, were by far the most valuable works w... more »hich had then appeared in that department of literature; and no person who is well acquainted with the history of sacred criticism and interpretation will allow himself to speak of them with disparagement . Of his poetical productions it is sufficient to say, that they were admired by the best judges among his contemporaries, and met with the applause of two eminent individuals, who like himself had courted the muse by ———" Siloa's brook, and Jordan's hallow'd tide.11 On reading his poems, Flaminius exclaimed, " I see that the muses have at length crossed the Alps f," and Buchanan hesitated not to pronounce him "one of the most singular poets that had been of a long time:):." When we consider these unequivocal testimonies of approbation, we will not feel disposed to pay implicit regard to the caustic remark of the critic, that Beza, by printing his version of the Psalms along with Buchanan's, " led to a comparison which he " Quod vero ante eum (Bezam) nemo instituit, ut codices consuleret et crisin Novi Testament! tractaret, id et ipsom prsesti- tit ille, nactus quosdam codices. Sic parva quidem ettenuia, tamcn initiasunt facta Ctitices N. T., eaque valde laudabilia." Sam. Frid. N. Mori Hermeneutica Novi Test, cura H. C. A. Eich- stadt, torn. ii. p. 292. Lips. 1802. t Theodori Bezae Poemat. Item ex Georgio Bucbanano aliisque—poetis Excerpta. Epist. Deilic. p. 7. Henr. Steph. 1569. [ See the letter of Buchanan to Sir Thomas Randolph ;, printed in the Appendix. chapter{Section 4ought not rashly to have hazarded ." The magnanimity which prompts a man of genius to enter into competition with his illustrious ...« less