An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics: Together with an Account of Polyglot Bibles, Polyglot Psalters, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek Fathers, and the Latin Fathers, المجلد 1

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Harding and Lepard, 1827
 

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الصفحة 151 - I can set out an edition of each in columns, without using any book under 900 years old, that shall so exactly agree, word for word, and, what at first amazed me, order for order, that no two tallies, nor two indentures, can agree better.
الصفحة 150 - Sixtus and Clemens, at a vast expense, had an assembly of learned divines to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate, and then enacted their new edition authentic : but I find, though I have not discovered any thing done dolo malo, they were quite unequal to the affair. They were mere theologi, had no experience in MSS. nor made use of good Greek copies, and followed books of 500 years before those of double that age.
الصفحة 258 - It is not without the most sincere regret, that I must now take leave of an accurate and faithful guide, who has composed the history of his own times, without indulging the prejudices and passions, which usually affect the mind of a contemporary.
الصفحة 150 - The New Testament has been under a hard fate since the invention of printing. After the Complutenses and Erasmus, who had but very ordinary MSS. it has become the property of booksellers. Robert Stephens's edition, set out and regulated by himself alone, is now become the standard. That text stands, as if an apostle was his compositor.
الصفحة 135 - Jirst edit, of 1624., besides being beautifully printed and extremely scarce, " deserves particularly to be noticed, because the text of the Greek Testament, which .had fluctuated in the preceding editions, acquired in this a. consistency, and seemed, during upwards of a century, to be exposed to no future alterations. It has acquired (he title of ' editio reccpta;' and the expression
الصفحة 477 - The edition of 1604 is the most beautiful and accurate of all Wolf's editions, and is universally acknowledged to be a magnificent and truly critical performance. Some copies have the subscription in the title-page, " Colon. Allobrog. 1607 ;" some were printed at Geneva, without the annotations of Wolf, on very bad paper.
الصفحة 32 - He laboured at this work for seventeen years, from sixteen, to eighteen hours each day, during which time he maintained in his own house, at his own cost, seven Englishmen and seven foreigners, as writers, all of whom died before the work was finished ; unfortunately their names have not been preserved.
الصفحة 150 - Testament, exactly as it was in the best examples at the time of the Council of Nice, so that there shall not be twenty words, nor even particles...
الصفحة 151 - I myself know not yet, having not used all the old copies that I have information of. " But by this you see that in my proposed work the fate of that verse will be a mere question of fact.

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