 | England - 1837 - 886 pages
...this art is given by Mr Hallam in his third chapter. " It is," he remarks, " a striking cireumstance that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried,...the very outset, so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine... | |
 | Frederick Adolphus Packard - Bible - 1837 - 702 pages
..._ts hitherto unimpeached priority in the records of bibliography. It is a very sinking circumstance, that the highminded inventors of this great art tried...Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It wad far within the first twentyfive years of the first invention of the art in its rudest form, that... | |
 | Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...this art is given by Mr Hallam in his third chapter. " It is," he remarks, " a striking circumstance that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried,...the very outset, so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 654 pages
...its hitherto unimpeached priority in the records of bibliography. It is a very striking circumstance, that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried...at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with attonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine... | |
 | American education society - 1837 - 450 pages
...its hitherto unimpeached priority in the records of bibliography. It is a very striking circumstance, that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried...at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1837 - 714 pages
...priority in the records of bibliography.* 22. It is a very striking circumstance, that the Beauty of high-minded inventors of this great art tried at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine... | |
 | Stephen Davies - 1838 - 260 pages
...sentiments, advocates the cause of religion, stimulates every virtuous * " It is a striking circumstance that the highminded inventors of this great art tried,...it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping upon earth in her divine strength and radiant armour, ready, at the moment of nativity, to subdue and... | |
 | Frederick Adolphus Packard - Bible - 1837 - 660 pages
...bibliography. It is a very striking circumstance, that the highminded inventors of this great art trieil at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing of an entire Bible, and executed U with astonishing success. It was far within the first twentyfive years of the first invention of... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Literature, Modern - 1839 - 530 pages
...there were lish. none but with east letters like those now in 22. It is a very striking circumstance , that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried...at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible , and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her... | |
 | 1839 - 550 pages
...honourable enthusiasm of this precious volume : — "It is," he says, "a very striking circumstance, that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried at the very onset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It... | |
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It is a very striking circumstance," says Mr. Hallam, " that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried, at the very outset, so bold a flight as the printing of an entire Bible,* and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping... 
