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The Life of George Bull, D.D., Lord Bishop of St. David's
The Life of George Bull DD Lord Bishop of St David's Author:Robert Nelson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: are no sucb sections marked ; but tbe paragraphs are divided exactly as they are printed in this edition, and nothing has been added but the numbers. When Bow... more »yer reprinted Grabe's edition in 1721, he added a few notes, principally to state the period in which each of the Fathers lived or their works were published. Nothing is said by him concerning the author of these notes; indeed they are almost exclusively taken from Cave. I have printed them all in this edition, marking them with the name of Bowyer. The principal object which I have had in view, and it is that which has caused by far the greatest portion of labour, was to verify the quotations and references made by Bull. The bishop appears in almost every instance to have consulted the best editions of the Fathers which were extant in his days. But I need not observe, that since that time there have been better editions of nearly all the Fathers. With the exception of Arnobius, the two Cyrils, Methodius, Photius, Theodoret, and perhaps one or two more, there are none which the Benedictine editors or others have not enabled us to re-ad iu a much more correct and perfect form. In every instance it has been my intention to consult the original passage as quoted by Bull, and to add the reference to the best edition. It is plain that Bull very often made mistakes in transcribing passages; and what person, who undertook such anHerculean task, would not do the same ? We know also, that he was in the habit of going to Oxford annually to consult the libraries there". Upon these occasions he probably made large extracts from those works, which his own limited income did not allow him to possess; so that when he wrote out his works for the press, instead of being able to verify his quotations with the printed copy, they were in fa...« less