 | 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...family, selected on, purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such other histories as are to be obtained on the is. land. Being but badly supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under the necessity of copying... | |
 | Ebenezer Henderson - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...write a hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing is scarcely inferior... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under ' A winter-evening in an Icelandic family presents a scene in the highest degree interesting and pleasing.... | |
 | Ebenezer Henderson - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...write a hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing is scarcely inferior... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 492
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...histories as are to be obtained on the Island. Being badly supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under the necessity of copying such as they can... | |
 | Abigail F. Mott - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 144
...composition of the Icelanders, or suth other histories as are to be had on the Island. * Being poorly supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under...hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing master in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing is scarcely inferior to copperplate.... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...family, selected on purpose, advances to a 'seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...write a hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing are scarcely inferior... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...279. VOL. xxxvii. — No. 81. 46 vances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old Saga or such...other histories, as are to be obtained on the island. In some houses the Sagas are repeated by such as have got them by heart ; and instances are not uncommon... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...generally known. Their usual evening reading during the long nights of their almost everlasting winters, consists of some old Saga, or such other histories as are to be obtained on their island. Dr. Henderson in his valuable work on Iceland, (page 357,) gives a most delightful description... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...printed books, they are under the necessity of copying such as they can obtain the loan of; and thus most of them write a hand, equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in Europe. In some houses, the xa^as are repeated by such as have got them by rote... | |
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The work is no sooner begun, than one of the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such other histories as are to be obtained on the island. Being... 
