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THE

SEMI-BARBAROUS HEBREW

AND THE

EXTINGUISHED THEOLOGIAN.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOCDE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

THE

SEMI-BARBAROUS HEBREW

AND THE

EXTINGUISHED THEOLOGIAN.

AN ESSAY.

BY THOMAS GRIBBLE.

MEN

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1871,

130. e. 73.

THE

SEMI-BARBAROUS HEBREW,

AND THE

EXTINGUISHED

THEOLOGIAN.

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Ir may be a rather troublesome, though not perhaps an unsalutary, bent of mind in some of us which forbids the ready dismissal from the sphere of thought of any idea or statement disagreeably tending to unsettle our cherished conclusions. At first we may try to forget what has startled or dismayed us; we may idly hope to sleep the impression off; we may pretend to think there is not much in it after all. But in the end this will not do. Sooner or later we are forced to rouse ourselves. find it high time to see exactly how we stand. We must estimate the effects of the shock, and ascertain whether we are unhappily on the wrong line, and therefore liable to annihilation from the next great blow, or whether we are really progressing in the right direction, only with not quite sufficient speed. And it is possible that by instituting a survey of this kind we may have the satisfaction of discovering that as yet nothing but an encumbrance or two has been struck off, though rudely, and may venture to trust that some judiciously placed

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