The Bibliographical Decameron: Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliographyauthor, 1817 |
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الصفحة 26 - ... call to mind the pleasures of the temple, the order of her services, the beauty of her buildings, the sweetness of her songs, the decency of her ministrations, the assiduity and economy of her priests and Levites, the daily sacrifice, and that eternal fire of devotion that went not out by day nor by night; these were the pleasures of our peace : and there is a remanent felicity in the very memory of those spiritual delights which we then enjoyed as antepasts of heaven, and consignations to an...
الصفحة clvi - Th' inspiring breeze: and meditate the book Of Nature ever open ; aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song. Here, as I steal along the sunny wall, Where Autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep, My pleasing theme continual prompts my thought: Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum; The ruddy fragrant nectarine; and dark, Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig.
الصفحة 158 - But enough of this: there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty...
الصفحة xxvi - THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, Illustrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, Manuscripts, and Charters, Ancient and Modern ; also Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing.
الصفحة 172 - I had no man to counterfet/ nether was holpe with englysshe of eny that had interpreted the same/ or soche lyke thinge in the scripture before tyme.
الصفحة 172 - Them that are learned Christenly, I beseche : for as moche as I am sure, and my conscience beareth me recorde, that of a pure entent, singilly and faythfully I have interpreted itt, as farre forth as god gave me the gyfte of knowledge, and...
الصفحة lxviii - Wolde has given them.) fac-slmlles of such various readings, cut in wood, are inserted precisely in the places where they occur, filling up only the same space with the original. The tail-pieces, or rude arabesque ornaments at the end of each book, are also represented by means of fac-simlles-in wood; so that the identity of the original Is perfectly preserved.
الصفحة 18 - Deus creator omnium polique rector, vestiens diem decoro lumine, noctem soporis gratia ; artus solutos ut quies reddat laboris usui, mentesque fessas allevet luctusque solvat anxios; grates peracto jam die et noctis exortu preces, voti reos ut adjuves, hymnum canentes solvimus.
الصفحة clxxxiv - ... could induce a family, loving their law, to part with a treasure so precious. During the calamities which followed the train of Bonaparte's wars, a Jewish family of opulence, was reduced to utter ruin, and compelled to emigrate.— They came to Holland in their exile, and were there so reduced as to be obliged to pledge, as their la»t remaining resource, this manuscript of the law, under a limitation of a considerable time for its redemption.
الصفحة 41 - Whereon is lively expressed and shewed The state of manne, And how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Death, and when he thinketh least thereon,