Author, U: New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6

Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period

From his firfl arrival he had refided a great part of his time in that univerfity, with which he was exceedingly delighted. Befide's the Bodleian library there, he met with feveral per fons of the full clafs of learning in his own way, among whom he found that freedom of converfe and communication of ftudies, which is'infeparable from true fcholars, whereby, together with his own induf'try and application, he was now grown into univerfalefieém, and every where careffed. The Alexandrian ms. Was' the chief objefi of his labour. He examined it with his ufual diligence, and comparing it with a Copy from that Of the Vatican at Rome, he found it in fo many places preferable thereto, that he refolved to print it as foon as poflible. In this view, in 1704, he drew up a parti culat account of the preferences, efpecially in refpeé't to the book of Judges. And publifhed it, together with three fpeci mens, containing fo manydifi'erent' methods of his intended edition, to be determined in his choice by the learned. This came out in 1705, with propofals for printing it by fubfcrip tion, in a letter addre¿e'd to Dr. Mill, principal of Edmond hall, Oxford (l) and that nothing might be wanting whichf lay in the power of that learned body to promote the work, he was honoured withethe degree of doétor of divinity, early the following year, upon which occafion Dr. Smalltidge, who then officiated as regius profeffor, fpoke two latin fpeeches, containing the highef't compliment upon his merit, exp/reffed in the mof't elegant language, heightened with all that force of eloquenice which fo celebrated an author was able to give them. The fuccefs was abundantly anfwerable to his fonded' wdhes befides the queen's bounty, he received another pre fent from his own (overeign the king of Prufi'ia, and fub fcriptions from the principal nobility, clergy, and gentry, crowded daily upon him from all parts.

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