One's Tory dinner was the more toothsome for the hot abuse of the Chaldee Manuscript.

But father Paul, finding a court life not agreeable to his temper, quitted it two years afterwards, and retired to his beloved privacies, being then not only acquainted with the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldee languages, but with philosophy, the mathematicks, canon and civil law, all parts of natural philosophy, and chymistry itself; for his application was unremitted, his head clear, his apprehension quick, and his memory retentive.

[1700]"I have read," saith Marcus Aurelius, "Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee authors; I have consulted with many wise men for a remedy for envy, I could find none, but to renounce all happiness, and to be a wretch, and miserable for ever."

The cause of this sudden attraction was an article headed "Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript," purporting to be an extract from some newly discovered historical document, every paragraph of which contained a special hit at some particular person well known in Edinburgh society.

In a recent number of Blackwood it is said that: "Hogg's name is nearly associated with the Chaldee Manuscript.

The same number of Blackwood which contained the "Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript," contained two articles, one probably by Wilson, on Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria," the other, signed "Z," by Lockhart, being the first of a series on "The Cockney School of Poetry.

In October of this year was published an anonymous pamphlet, entitled "Hypocrisy Unveiled," which raked up the whole of the joke contained in the "Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript," published a year before.

While the principal editors of the Chaldee Manuscript had thus revealed themselves to the author of "Hypocrisy Unveiled," the London publisher of Blackwood was, in November 1818, assailed by a biting pamphlet, entitled "A Letter to Mr. John Murray, of Albemarle Street, occasioned by his having undertaken the publication, in London, of Blackwood's Magazine."

In the course of the following year, "Christopher North" made the following statement in Blackwood's Magazine in "An Hour's Tête-à-tête with the Public": "The Chaldee Manuscript, which appeared in our seventh number, gave us both a lift and a shove.

Hamilton himself"the black eagle of the desert," as the "Chaldee Manuscript" calls himwas a mighty force.

" [Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

These translations of the Hebrew Scriptures into the Chaldee, the language which they acquired in Babylon, were thus called for by the necessity of the case.

" [Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

These translations into the Chaldee, the language which they acquired in Babylon, were thus called for by the necessity of the case.]

" [Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

These translations of the Hebrew Scriptures into the Chaldee, the language which they acquired in Babylon, were thus called for by the necessity of the case.

" [Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

These translations into the Chaldee, the language which they acquired in Babylon, were thus called for by the necessity of the case.]

" Dr. Stukely, who says, that acan in the Chaldee signifies a serpent, and hac is no other than a snake.

Moses is supposed to have written in characters which were nearly the same as those called Samaritan, but his writings have come to us in an alphabet more beautiful and regular, called the Chaldee or Chaldaic, which is said to have been made by Ezra the scribe, when he wrote out a new copy of the law, after the rebuilding of the temple.

"The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any ancient character known.

"The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any other ancient character known.

ARAMÆA, the territories lying to NE. of Palestine, the inhabitants of which spoke a Semitic dialect called Aramaic, and improperly Chaldee.

FÜRST, JULIUS, a distinguished German Orientalist, born in Posen, of Jewish descent; a specialist in Hebrew and Aramaic; author of a Hebrew and Chaldee Manual (1805-1873).

The original is in Chaldee.