History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times: Or, A Concise Account of the Means by which the Genuineness and Authenticity of Ancient Historical Works are Ascertained: with an Estimate of the Comparative Value of the Evidence Usually Adduced in Support of the Claims of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures |
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History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times: Or, a Concise ... Isaac Taylor,Isaac Anonymous No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 174 - When you have proved that the three angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles...
Page 4 - When exhibited in this light, it will be seen that 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 68 - De re diplomatica libri VI. In quibus quidquid ad veterum instrumentorum antiquitatem, materiam, scripturam, et stilum; quidquid ad sigilla, monogrammata, subscriptiones, ac notas chronologicas; quidquid inde ad antiquariam, historicam, forensemque disciplinam pertinet, explicatur et illustratur.
Page 46 - ... inferior quality. The Roman artists paid great attention to its improvement, and at length made it of considerable thickness, perfectly white and smooth. Even in this state, however, it was so friable and weak, that, when great durability was requisite, leaves of parchment were intermixed with those of papyrus. " Thus the firmness of the one substance defended the brittleness of the other, and great numbers of books, so constituted, have resisted the accidents and decays of twelve centuries.
Page 5 - ... adduced in support of any other ancient writings. If, therefore, the question had no other importance belonging to it than what may attach to a purely literary inquiry, or if only the strict justice of the case were regarded, the authenticity of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures could never come to be controverted, till the entire body of classical literature had been proved to be spurious.
Page 82 - Meanwhile along the cloister's painted side, The monks — each bending low upon his book With head on hand reclined— their studies plied ; Forbid to parley, or in front to look, Lengthways their regulated seats they took ; The strutting prior gazed with pompous mien, And wakeful tongue, prepared with prompt rebuke. If monk asleep in sheltering hood was seen ; He wary often peeped beneath that russet screen.
Page 83 - Forbid to parley, or in front to look ; Lengthways their regulated seats they took. The strutting prior gazed, with pompous mien, And wakeful tongue prepared with prompt rebuke ; If monk asleep in sheltering hood were seen, He wary often peep'd beneath that russet screen.
Page 245 - ... Hardouin of the same society, which has been actually made contrary to their will by the Sieur de Lorme, bookseller at Amsterdam," &c. At the bottom of this was Hardouin's recantation, which runs in these curious terms : " I subscribe sincerely to every thing contained in the preceding declaration ; I heartily condemn in my writings what it condemns in them, and particularly what I have said concerning an impious faction, which had forged some ages ago the greatest part of the ecclesiastical...
Page 194 - Virgil (already mentioned) in the Vatican, claims an antiquity as high as the fourth century : there are a few similar instances ; but generally the existing copies of the classics are attributed to periods between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. In this respect the Scriptures are by no means inferior to the classics. There are extant copies of the Pentateuch, which, on no slight grounds, are...
Page 175 - ... facts remote from our personal knowledge are not necessarily more or less certain, in proportion to the length of time that has elapsed since they took place.