 | England - 1837 - 886 pages
...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 and radiant armour, ready, at the moment of nativity, to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible (the... | |
 | American education society - 1837 - 450 pages
...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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...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 and radiant armour, ready, at the moment of nativity, to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible (the... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1837 - 714 pages
...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 and radiant armour, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 654 pages
...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 and radiant armour, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is... | |
 | 1839 - 550 pages
...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 and radiant armour, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 426 pages
...rude and imperfect specimens." Mr. Hallam has suffered his strong emotion on the greatness of thj3 invention to reflect itself back on the humble discoverers...quality of the paper and the sparkling blackness of its ink.t The success of the art was established by this Bible ; but the goldsmith Fust, who himself was... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pages
...printing an entire Bible. It was Minerva leaping on earth, in her divine strength and radiant armour, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and...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 pages
...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 and radiant armour, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies." — I.ileranj Historg... | |
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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. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine strength... 
