E are not entirely responsible for the delay in noticing this
erudite and valuable performance, which, though it has/or
so long a time passed the press, will probably be new to the
greater part of our readers. The volumes issue from the Univer-
sity press; much to the honour of the learned Delegates, to
whose readiness in undertaking the publication the Author ac-
knowledges his obligations. But, notwithstanding the high aus-
pices under which they appear, we cannot learn that they have
hitherto obtained the share of attention from the public, to which
they are intrinsically entitled; owing, perhaps, to their not having
been made known by the usual expedients adopted by London
publishers.
The " Harmonia Evangelica" and the three volumes of Pre-
liminary Dissertations, compose one connected work. In the
former, the evangelical history is distributed into five parts, com-
prising as many chronological divisions: these are subdivided
into sections, the text of the Evangelists being arranged in two or
more parallel columns. The Dissertations are fifty in number,
to which are added some supplementary disquisitions and notes,
in eight appendices. Of the object and purpose of these disser-
tations, which form a connected series, we shall first give an ac-
count, taken from the Author's own synopsis.
The first volume comprises thirteen principal Dissertatior
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