 | Henry Hallam - 1837 - 714 pàgines
...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 strength...her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is printed, some copies on vellum, some on paper of choice quality, with strong, black,... | |
 | 1837 - 654 pàgines
...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 strength...her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is printed, some copies on vellum, some on paper of choice quality, with strong, black,... | |
 | American education society - 1837 - 450 pàgines
...with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine strength and radiant armor, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is printed, some copies on vellum, some on paper of choice quality, with strong, black,... | |
 | Stephen Davies - 1838 - 260 pàgines
...printing of an entire Bible, and executed 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 destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible (the first hook, properly so called,... | |
 | 1839 - 550 pàgines
...very onset 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 strength...her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is printed, some copies on vellum, some on paper of choice quality, with strong, black,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pàgines
...inquiries, calls once more on Dr. Cotton's Minerva, but with a more celestial panoply. "The high-minded inventors of this great art tried, at the very outset,...from having been found in the Cardinal's library, re* HalJam's Introduction to the Literature of Europe, i. 211. mains still a miracle of typography,... | |
 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1841 - 166 pàgines
...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 strength...of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies." — I.ileranj Historg of Europe, c. 3, p. 211. NOTE 20, p. 58. As the red beacon shot from /rfa's height.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 366 pàgines
...inquiries, calls once more on Dr. Cotton's Minerva, but with a more celestial panoply. '' The high-minded inventors of this great art tried, at the very outset,...quality of the paper and the sparkling blackness of its ink.-j- The success of the art was established by this Bible; but the goldsmith Fust, who himself was... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1844 - 252 pàgines
...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 strength...her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies." The king and the archbishop might have desired that England should learn the art of executing so splendid... | |
 | 1874 - 990 pàgines
...outset, so bold a flight as the printing of an entire Bible,* and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine strength...of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. . . . We may see in imagination this venerable and splendid volume leading up the crowded myriads of... | |
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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. 
