This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: …procure money for the paying off the workmen at the press; the money subscribed falling short, and there being such a scarcity of persons so nobly affected as to contribute. God preserve him in health, that he may lay the head-stone; God raise up some, that may move others of ample fortune to ennoble themselves, by encouraging a work of so universal and diffusive a good; God reward him in the comforts–of this life also! Persons, deserving highly for their endeavours of the publick good, would have found not less encouragement in the heathen world. Such an one at Athens would have had the favour of the Prytaneum. Would such places were erected in Christendom! Letters of Dr. Worthington to Hartlib, Ep. xvi. Sep. 9. 1661. p. 280, et seq. Dr. Pocock was also an assistant to Castell. Castell petitioned Cromwell to have five thousand reams of royal paper, excise and custom free. See Dr. Twells’s Life of Pocock, .3. Strype, Life of Lightfoot, Prefixed to Lightfoot’s Works, p. xxi. though he worked p most laboriously for it; to render many important services to Dr. Walton; in a manner too which illustrates the great moj desty, as well as erudition, which Dr. Walton, in ‘acknowledging those services, has not overpassed. His labours upon the Samaritan; the’ Syriac, the Arabic, and the Ethiopic versions, with notes upon all of them; and his Latin translation of the Canticles in the last-named language;. are what the Preface to the Polyglot records. In the sixth volume of the Polyglot, his ‘further assistance of collation is gratefully noticed. Yet these acknowledgments have not been considered equal to his services. For he is f Sixteen or eighteen hours a day between the Polyglot and the Lexicon! He accounted it a kind of idle holiday, if at any time this…
