"Single-handedly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arisen from the Corruptions, the unbelieving Jews introduc'd into the Hebrew and Greek copies of the Old Testament, [soon after] the Beginning of the Second Century." These conspiratorial corruptions he single-handedly planned to remove, returning the Old Testament to a state of textual purity with emendations drawn from sources as varied as the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Greek Psalms, the Antiquities of Josephus, the Chaldee Paraphrases, the books of Philo. His pragmatic purpose was to nullify ...
— A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) • Anthony Collins |
