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133:. Badcock then died, and White, in his letter of condolence to his sister, requested her to return all letters in Badcock's papers; but Miss Badcock took advice from Robert Burd Gabriel, to whom her brother had been curate. Among the papers was a bond for £500. White at first refused to pay, but afterwards agreed. Gabriel had meanwhile circulated the story, and being challenged from several quarters to produce evidence for his assertion, at length published a number of White's letters to Badcock, evidence of the joint authorship, and also suggesting that yet other hands had been employed on the discourses. Gabriel's pamphlet ran through several editions; in a rejoinder from one of White's partisans Gabriel was virulently attacked. White in 1790 published an account of his literary obligations, maintaining that the bond was for help in a projected history of Egypt, of which work on 17: 421: 243: 70:, as a commoner on 6 June 1765. In September of that year he became scholar of his college, where he shortly afterwards obtained the Hody exhibition for Hebrew, as well as other prizes. He was fellow from 1771 until 1788, and filled various college offices. He graduated B.A. on 5 April 1769, M.A. on 19 February 1773, B.D. on 17 May 1779, and D.D. on 17 December 1787. 96:
From 1780 to 1783 he was occupied in preparing an edition of the Persian text of the 'Institutes of Timur,' of which a specimen was issued in the former year, while the whole appeared in 1783, at the expense of the East India Company. The text was accompanied by a translation into English by Major
54:, the son of Thomas White, a journeyman weaver. He received his earliest education in one of the Gloucester charity schools, and started life in his father's employment. Wealthy neighbours enabled him to pursue his studies at 117:, an impoverished clergyman and newspaper writer, to write up one lecture and large portions of others, as a secret arrangement. The lectures were very well received, and White received preferment: the rectory of 165:. The rest of White's literary work was concentrated on the textual study of the Old and New Testaments, and earned him in 1804 the regius professorship of Hebrew at Oxford, carrying with it a canonry of 253: 455: 736: 721: 154: 852: 149:
at last appeared, with a dedication to Sir William Scott. He had printed the text sixteen years before, but, not being satisfied with it, had presented the copies to
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had left materials, from two manuscripts which he had brought from the east. White's edition appeared in 1778.
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White died at Christ Church, Oxford, on 23 May 1814. He married, in 1790, Mary Turner, sister of
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who issued the work in Germany. White's edition embodied a translation which had been begun by
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for 1784, his subject being a comparison between Islam and Christianity. He asked
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Between 1790 and 1800 he published little. In the latter year his edition of
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which White published in 1804 became antiquated in the light of advances in
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entrusted to White the task of completing and issuing an edition of the
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version (more accurately, Harklensian) of the New Testament, for which
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English orientalist, theologian and university professor (1745–1814)
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Davy, then Persian secretary to the governor-general of Bengal.
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At his patron's desire he devoted himself to the study of
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who visited Tibet as a British envoy. She died in 1811.
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Criseos Griesbachianae in Novum Testamentum Synopsis
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London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 226:The most likely dedicatee would seem to be 456: 442: 288: 274: 121:, through Moore's influence, and then a 109:, was appointed to the recently founded 45: 15: 179:manuscript then recently discovered at 105:In 1783 White, one of the preachers at 100: 810: 833:19th-century English Anglican priests 828:18th-century English Anglican priests 437: 269: 185:Diatessaron or Harmony of the Gospels 13: 14: 869: 843:Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford 131:Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow 858:English male non-fiction writers 419: 259:Dictionary of National Biography 241: 228:William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell 140: 220: 1: 767:Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick 213: 848:Laudian Professors of Arabic 297:Laudian Professors of Arabic 7: 662:Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier 464:Regius Professors of Hebrew 425:University of Oxford portal 32:Laudian Professor of Arabic 10: 874: 155:Edward Pococke the Younger 137:was to be the first part. 36:Regius Professor of Hebrew 637: 609:Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver 469: 417: 313: 303: 254:White, Joseph (1745-1814) 183:, he published in 1800 a 62:, and with support from 639:University of Cambridge 604:Cuthbert Aikman Simpson 193:Johann Jakob Griesbach 189:New Testament in Greek 68:Wadham College, Oxford 21: 624:Hugh G. 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Laudian Professor of Arabic
Regius Professor of Hebrew
University of Oxford
Gloucestershire
Ruscomb
Gloucester
John Moore
Wadham College, Oxford
Syriac
Robert Lowth
Clarendon Press
Philoxenian
Glocester Ridley
Whitehall Chapel
Bampton lectureship
Samuel Badcock
Melton, Suffolk
prebend
Gloucester Cathedral
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
Abd-el-latif
Heinrich Paulus
Edward Pococke the Younger
Pompey's Pillar
Egyptology
Christ Church, Oxford
Septuagint
Hexaplar-Syriac
Milan

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