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Common terms and phrasesadduced affirmed allusions ancient books ancient history ancient literature antiquity authenticity belong Berosus British Museum Catherine Hutton century character Charles Lamb Charles Lloyd Christian Coleridge contain copies copyists Croesus Ctesias dear doubt edition Egypt Egyptian Epistles evidence existing extant facts father feel genuineness give Greece Greek hand Herodotus historians history of Herodotus Homer Iliad instances kind known labours Lamb Lamb's language Latin learning less letter literary London materials means ment mentioned mind mode modern monasteries monks moral narrative nations nature never passage peculiar Persian persons Photius Plutarch poem poetry poets possess present proof question quotations quoted reader references remains remote Roman Sampson Lloyd Samuel Taylor Coleridge Scriptures Southey Strabo style Tacitus taste testimony thou Thucydides tion transcribers translation truth verse volume words Wordsworth writers written wrote Xerxes Popular passagesPage 357 - I am Darius, the great king, the king of kings, the king of Persia, the king of (the dependent) provinces, the son of Hystaspes, the grandson of Arsames, the Achaemenian. Page 230 - European printed book. They have no cursive writing; each letter is therefore painted, as it were, with the reed pen, and as the scribe finishes each he usually makes a horrible face and gives a triumphant flourish with his pen. Thus he goes on letter by letter, and before he gets to the end of the first line he is probably in a perspiration from his nervous apprehension of the importance of his undertaking. Page 233 - CURETON (REv. W.) Remains of a very Ancient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in Europe. Discovered, Edited, and Translated. 4to. 24s. CURTIUS' (PROFESSOR) Student's Greek Grammar, for the use of Colleges and the Upper Forms. Page 229 - The books of Abyssinia are bound in the usual way, sometimes in red leather and sometimes in wooden boards, which are occasionally elaborately carved in rude and coarse devices ; they are then enclosed in a case, tied up with leather thongs ; to this case is attached a strap for the convenience of carrying the volume over the shoulders, and by these straps the books were hung to the wooden pegs, three or four on a peg, or more if the books were smafl ; their usual size was that of a small, very thick... Page 222 - The special locality set apart for the library in the several monasteries, as I have already mentioned, is the tower chamber, which is accessible only by means of the drawbridge. No spot in the monastery could well be safer from the visits of the fraternity than this. Here are seen (I speak of the first monastery) the manuscripts heaped indiscriminately together. Lying on the ground, or thrown into large baskets, beneath masses of dust, are found innumerable fragments of old, torn, and destroyed... Page 231 - ... of the ancient Egyptians were made in the same way, and excellent brooms for common purposes are made at Cairo by beating the thick end of a palm-branch till the fibres are separated from the pith, the part above, which is not beaten, becoming the handle of the broom. The Abyssinian having... Page 379 - Whenever he passes a cross-way, he bathes his head. For the benefit of a special purification, he invites the priestesses to his house ; who, while he stands reverently in the midst of them, bear around him an onion or a little dog. Page 378 - The superstitious man having washed his hands in the sacred fount, and being well sprinkled with holy water from the temple, takes a leaf of laurel in his mouth, and walks about with it all the day. If a weasel cross his path, he will not proceed until some one has gone before him; or until he has thrown three stones across the way. If he sees a serpent in the house, he builds a chapel on the spot. When he passes the... Page 5 - ... the integrity of the records of the Christian faith is substantiated by evidence in a tenfold proportion more various, copious, and conclusive, than that which can be adduced in support of any other ancient writings. Page 229 - Underneath the shelf various long wooden pegs projected from the wall ; they were each about a foot and a half long, and on them hung the Abyssinian manuscripts, of which this curious library was entirely composed. References from web pagesTAYLOR, ISAAC.; History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to ... Bibliographic information
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