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but, perhaps, might be matched elsewhere. As to the charge of inurbanity, it was brought against them by Voltaire, who fpake of them as a "wretched "nation, ever ignorant, and vulgar, and ftrangers to the Arts." The following reply was made to him; When the infidels fhall have duly confidered it, we fhall hope to be favoured with their fentiments upon it.

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"Does it become you, a writer of the eighteenth century, to charge the "antient Hebrews with ignorance? A people, who, while your barbarous ancestors, whilft even the Greeks and Latins, wandering in their woods, "could fcarcely procure for themselves cloathing and a fettled fubfiftence, "already poffeffed all arts of neceffity, and fome of mere pleasure; who not "only knew how to feed and rear cattle, till the earth, work up wood, "ftone, and metals, weave cloaths, dye wool, embroider ftuffs, polish and 66 engrave on precious ftones, but who, even then, adding to manual arts "thofe of taste and refinement, furveyed land, appointed their feftivals ac"cording to the motions of the heavenly bodies, and ennobled their so"lemnities by the pomp of ceremonies, by the found of inftruments, mufic, "and dancing; who even then committed to writing the hiftory of the "origin of the world, that of their own nation, and their ancestors; who "had poets and writers skilled in all the fciences then known, great and "brave commanders, a pure worship, juft laws, a wife form of government; "in fhort, the only one of all antient nations that has left us authentic mo"numents of genius and of literature. Can this nation be justly charged with ignorance and inurbanity?"

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Pfalm XCVII. by Mr. Pearfon 57. Aoing
Twv Maywv, 58. Tranflation of ditto,
120. The Lord's Prayer in Verse by
Mr. Pearson, 122. Epitaph on a Mo-
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for the Blind at Liverpool, 178. Lines
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Sunday Morning Hymn, 307. Morn-
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Propofals of Peace, 309. On Death
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