This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... of this there is a copy in our College Library. A small portrait of him, at the age of 32, is prefixed, and there is an appendix of encomiastic letters written to him by various eminent men, among which are two from Abraham Wheelock, and one from Edw. Pocock. The dedication of the former volume to Ussher is reprinted here. Two letters from him to Ussher, written from Amsterdam in April, 1647, and May, 1650 (referring partly in the second to his procuring some Hebrew type), are printed at pp. 511, 550 of the Appendix of letters in Parr's Life of Ussher, fol., Lond., 1686. Selden also was one with whom he was acquainted, and Laud, the universal patron of learned men, assisted him. Some particulars about him are given in Twells' Life of Pocock (Lives of Pocock, Pearce, Newton, and Skelton, Lond., r816, vol. i. pp. 60, 138-40), from which we learn that Ussher allowed him 24 yearly while he was in the East, and also that the high opinion of him entertained by many, which he was anxious to make known to the world, was, as might be expected, not held by all. John Greaves, in a letter to Pocock (written apparently in 1645), speaks of some papers which Ravis had sent him as causing much mirth: 'if I have laught (yet with some kind of pity of the man) at his Persian, how much more will you smile at his Persian and Arabic? A little before, I had received a letter from him by the hands of an honourable friend of yours, in which he writ that he had dedicated a book to me; the first noise of it almost put me into a cold sweat, but after that I found it was dedicated to no less than six score besides myself, and that you and your friend were in the number, I recovered myself, and grew warm again. He is now at Leyden, where, when I see him, I shall give him the best ...