A Defence Of Christianity Against The Work Of George B English A M Entitled The Grounds Of Christianity Examined By Comparing The New Testament

Author : Edward Everett
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ISBN 13 : 9781331063254
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book A Defence of Christianity written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Defence of Christianity: Against the Work of George B. English, Entitled the Grounds of Christianity Examined, by Comparing the New Testament With the Old I would take occasion, before entering upon the immediate subject of the present work, to ask the reader's attention to another connected with it: - viz. the alleged plagiarisms of Mr. English. He leads us in his preface to expect, that he had availed himself, to a considerable degree, of the labours of others; and as far as the fact appears to correspond in nature to this expectation, he must certainly be acquitted of plagiarism. His words are, "I do not claim to have originated all the arguments advanced in this book: a very considerable proportion of them were derived from ancient and curious Jewish tracts, translated from Chaldee into Latin, &c. Some few other arguments were derived from other authors, and were taken from works not so much known, as I hope they will be." These remarks are from the preface to his first work; and in his letter to Mr. Cary he says, "the whole truth is, that out of over two hundred pages, of which my book consists, if all for which I am indebted to Collins was collected into one mass, it would not occupy more than seventeen pages" And if "the very considerable proportion of the arguments in the book, mentioned in the preface as directly derived from others, were to be collected into a mass, and added to this, the whole would amount to not exceeding forty pages." I would here correct a mistake, which the sequel will show to be of some importance. Mr. English did not say in his preface that 'a very considerable proportion' of the arguments were derived from 'other' sources. The very considerable proportion was derived from Jewish tracts. It was some few other arguments that were derived from other sources; and under this comprehensive head of 'some few, ' the seventeen pages from Collins must be comprised, besides more than twice as much more from other authors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.