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Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter: With a New Edition of Her Poems ... : To Which Are Added, Some Miscellaneous Essays in Prose, Together with ... Objections Concerning the Christian Religion
Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter With a New Edition of Her Poems To Which Are Added Some Miscellaneous Essays in Prose Together with Objections Concerning the Christian Religion Author:Elizabeth Carter, Montagu Pennington Subtitle: To Whither Are Added, Some Miscellaneous Essays in Prose, Together With Her Notes on the Bible General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1808 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of t... more »his book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MISCELLANIES IN PROSE. LETTERS BETWEEN 4RCHBISHOP SECKER AND MRS. CARTER, CON'CF. KNINO A PASSAGE IN HOMER; nrrKKKKB TO IN THE MEMOIRS. FROM MRS. CARTER. Jz%, 1760. auj tyuye II. A. v. 281. ALL the editions which I have an opportunity of consulting, render the last line -- precabor Achillem deponere iram. Is not this very evidently inconsistent with the Greek ? It would be right if it was AiXXna -- but I believe there is no instance that Airrojtxa ever governs a dative case. Throughout the liiad, I think I may venture to affirm, it has always an accusative. Either then the true reading must be AiXXwa, or the sense be a very different one from that which theinterpreters give to this passage, and a sense which, J think, is much more agreeable to the context. 1'ROM THE ARCHBISHOP IN ANSWER. Are you not ashamed to persecute a poor English Archbishop with Heathen Greek, which, it may be hoped, he hath had the grace to forget entirely ? But you cannot rest quiet in your bed, you say, without doing it. Very probable truly; for I read of some persons, Prov. iv. ]6. " They sleep not except they have done mischief: and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall." However, I shall secure myself, by only transcribing yhat one Henricus Stcphanus saith (as you will suppose me to have learnt from my chaplains) in what he calleth his Treasure, of words belike. AvTXg tyuyi Aktj-o' AiXX)i pdli[j. iv Xov. Ubi hoc etiam obiter animadverte, quis hlc sit usus Dativi Casus, ne te vulgata ad ver...« less