The History of Many Memorable Things Lost, which Were in Use Among the Ancients: And an Account of Many Excellent Things Found, Now in Use Among the Moderns, Both Natural and Artificial, Band 1

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J. Nicholson, and sold, 1715 - 446 Seiten

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Seite 279 - That which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below.
Seite 295 - And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about : a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
Seite 41 - They are four and forty rows. Every row is a foot and a half high, and as much in breadth ; fo that a man fits conveniently in them under the feet of thofe of the higher row ; and allowing every man a foot ,and a half, the whole amphitheatre can hold twenty-three thoufand perfons.
Seite 156 - The steeds caparison'd with purple stand, With golden trappings, glorious to behold, And champ betwixt their teeth the foaming gold. Then to his absent guest the king decreed A pair of coursers born of...
Seite 375 - ... among the Moderns, both Natural and Artificial, a book much used by the moderns : The ingenious Author of the foregoing Work lived in an Age which afforded him a double Prospect; the One backward, when Ignorance and Darkness overwhelmed all Nations, and Learning was at so low an Ebb, that scarce so much as the knowledge of the Latin Tongue was any where to be found : The Other forward, when Learning began to revive, and Arts and Sciences to be enquired after. The Times of Ignorance he hath fully...
Seite 346 - ... frightful destruction that they will bring a war to a speedy end, or even cause the leaders of the nations to recoil from war altogether. In writing about firearms in 1715, for example, an English editor had this to say: "Perhaps Heaven hath in Judgment inflicted the Cruelty of this Invention, on purpose to fright Men into Amity and Peace, and into an Abhorrence of the Tumult and Inhumanity of War.
Seite 91 - The name (Pyramid) is derived from a flame of fire, in regard to their shape; broad below, and sharp above, like a pointed diamond. By such the ancients did express the original of things; and that formless form-making substance.
Seite 299 - Gamar and his countrymen the Portuguese, who, as he pretends, took it from certain barbarian pirates. Goropius Becanus thinks he has good reason to give the honour of the discovery to his countrymen, the Germans: the thirty-two points of the compass borrow their names from the Dutch in all languages. But Blondus, who is...
Seite 249 - That the earth was brought out of other Provinces, but for the advantage of water, which makes them more polite and perspicuous, they were only made in this. That they were wrought and...

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