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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Reiht Rev. Brian Walton, Lord Bishop of Chester, Editor of the London Polyglot Bible
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Reiht Rev Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester Editor of the London Polyglot Bible Author:Henry John Todd Subtitle: With Notices of His Coadjutors in That Illustrious ... . in Two Volumes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1821 Original Publisher: Rivington Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edit... more »ion of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Account of the beginning, progress, and completion, of the London Polyglot. "m I Went to London," says the amiable and pious Evelyn, " where was proposed to me, November 22, 1652, the promoting that greate work, (since accomplished by Dr. Walton, bishop of Chester,) Biblia Polyglotta, by Mr." Pierson, that most learned divine." This is the earliest recorded instance, which I have met with, of the activity employed by the friends of Dr. Walton ; which, indeed, was at length so successful, that, " before the close of that year, subscriptions to the value of near 4000/. were obtained ; and, soon afterwards, were more than doubled. The description and proposals, of which mention has been made, were now distributed ; and are here subjoined. " r A Brief Description of an Edition of theBible in the Original Hebrew, Samaritan, and Greek, with the most ancient Translations of the Jewish and Christian Churches, viz. the Sept. Greek, Chaldee, Syriac, Ethiopia, Arabic, Persian, $c. and the Latin Versions of them all: a new Apparatus, 8$c. m Evelyn's Memoirs, Vol. i. p. 263. n Afterwards Bishop of Chester, one of the completest divines of that age. 0 Twells's Life of Pocock, §. 3. Copied from a volume of Tracts in folio, in the British Museum, among those which were the gift of his late most excellent Majesty, King George III. " Whereas the ground of faith is the Word of God, contained in the Scriptures, it must needs be a work of highest consequence to preserve those sacred oracles ...« less