| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bible - 1827 - 596 pages
...Canticles, under the last version, D i in my undertaking, partners* in my toil ; but some of them are now no more, and others have abandoned me, alarmed...considered that day as idle and dissatisfactory in which I did not toil sixteen or eighteen hours either at the Polyglot or Lexicon." From the dedicatory epistle... | |
| William Holden Spilsbury - 1850 - 360 pages
...the London ministers, if Mr. Walton pleaded for them." ing, partners in my toil; but some of them are now no more, and others have abandoned me, alarmed...therefore, left alone without amanuensis or corrector, with my patrimony exhausted, my bodily and mental strength impaired, and my eyesight almost gone."... | |
| John Kitto - Bible - 1851 - 546 pages
...the undertaking. I am now, therefore, left alone, without transcriber or corrector, far advanced m years, with my patrimony exhausted, my bodily and...mental strength impaired, and my eyesight almost gone.' C 2 This This inattention to Hebrew study, thus noticed as commencing, became more and more apparent.... | |
| American Bible Society, American Bible Society. Library - Bible - 1855 - 134 pages
...but some of them are now no more, and others have abandoned ma, alarmed at the immensity of the work. I am now, therefore, left alone, without amanuensis...mental strength impaired, and my eyesight almost gone.' Such were the melancholy circumstances under which the Lexicon of Castell was composed." [Dibdin.l... | |
| American Bible Society. Library - Bible - 1855 - 128 pages
...completed. In allusion to this, he says, ' I had once companions in my undertaking, but some of them are now no more. and others have abandoned me, alarmed at the immensity of the work. I am now, therefore, left alone, without amanuensis or corrector ; far advanced in years ; with... | |
| David S. Katz - Religion - 2004 - 428 pages
...book. 'I had once', he writes, 'companions in my undertaking, partners in my toil; but some of them are now no more, and others have abandoned me, alarmed...strength impaired, and my eye-sight almost gone!' Indeed, Castell claimed, 'I considered that day as idle and dissatisfactory in which I did not toil... | |
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