The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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Page 67
... revision of the Vulgate , as has been already observed , at the command of Charlemagne , and under the direction of Alcuin , in whose Correctorium , the result of the united labours of the commission , pre- sented to Charlemagne , " the ...
... revision of the Vulgate , as has been already observed , at the command of Charlemagne , and under the direction of Alcuin , in whose Correctorium , the result of the united labours of the commission , pre- sented to Charlemagne , " the ...
Page 69
... revised the Latin translation , and corrected it upon the faith of the Greek manuscripts . Did he therefore replace the three heavenly witnesses at this revision or not ? If he did , why did he not then write his preface to inform the ...
... revised the Latin translation , and corrected it upon the faith of the Greek manuscripts . Did he therefore replace the three heavenly witnesses at this revision or not ? If he did , why did he not then write his preface to inform the ...
Page 255
... revision . Many of them are given in the Glasgow " Variorum edition . Why he did not continue his attention to Euripides , and endeavour , as he expressed it , to com- plete the web which he had begun to weave , is a question that has ...
... revision . Many of them are given in the Glasgow " Variorum edition . Why he did not continue his attention to Euripides , and endeavour , as he expressed it , to com- plete the web which he had begun to weave , is a question that has ...
Page 423
... revision of St. Jerome's ver- sion of the New Testament , 67 . Ammonius censured , 187 . Aristophanes , Porson's character of , 41-43 . Did not contribute to the death of Socrates , ib . Porson solicited to edit , 255. Porson's ...
... revision of St. Jerome's ver- sion of the New Testament , 67 . Ammonius censured , 187 . Aristophanes , Porson's character of , 41-43 . Did not contribute to the death of Socrates , ib . Porson solicited to edit , 255. Porson's ...
Page 426
... Revision of it by Alcuin , 67. No support in it for 1 John , v . 7 , 68. Nor in Jerome's " Pro- logue to the Canonical Epistles , ” 68— 70. That " Prologue " probably not his , ib . Johnson , Dr. , his silence about Lauder in his Life ...
... Revision of it by Alcuin , 67. No support in it for 1 John , v . 7 , 68. Nor in Jerome's " Pro- logue to the Canonical Epistles , ” 68— 70. That " Prologue " probably not his , ib . Johnson , Dr. , his silence about Lauder in his Life ...
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