 | John Allen Giles - Great Britain - 1848 - 458 pages
...and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind; for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Great Britain - 1848 - 552 pages
...and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind; for the • Denarii. •)• Unciae pollicis. opening of the lantern was also closed up,... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - Great Britain - 1848 - 546 pages
...and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind ; for the * Denarii. t Unciae pollicis. ip 888.] EIS IMPARTIALITY. 85 opening of the lantern... | |
 | Albrecht von Baron HALLER - Constitutional history - 1849 - 388 pages
...and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind ; for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - Anglo-Saxons - 1852 - 590 pages
...and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind ; for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a... | |
 | Religion - 1857 - 830 pages
...he ordered a lauthorn to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when gkilfully planed till it is thin, is no less transparent than a vessel of glass. This lanthorn, therefore, was wonderfully made of wood and horn, as wo before said, and by night a candle... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - Anglo-Saxons - 1858 - 596 pages
...and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind ; for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Coins, Anglo-Saxon - 1863 - 416 pages
...and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind ; for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1869 - 362 pages
...a useful and cunning invention, he had a lantern beautifully constructed in wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no...brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind ; for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the King's command, by a... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Anglo-Saxons - 1870 - 448 pages
...than a vessel of glass. Now this lantern was wonderfully made, as we have said, of wood and horn ; and by night a candle was put into it, which shone as brightly without as within, for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a door made... | |
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... of the tents, they then unavoidably burned out and finished their course before the appointed time; the king therefore considered by what means he might shut out the wind, and so by a useful and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully... 
