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 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 171 - By certain proof is here meant, not merely such as may be presented to the senses, or such as cannot be rendered obscure even for a moment by a perverse disputant ; — but such as, when once understood, leaves no room for doubt in a sound mind.
Page 84 - The mouks, 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 were seen, He wary often peep'd beneath that russet screen.
Page 158 - A mound of earth, one foot in height, satisfies that feeling of our nature which impels us to preserve from disturbance the recent remains of the dead. But a pyramid five hundred feet in height was not too tall a tomb for an Egyptian king ! The varnished doll, into which the art of the apothecary converted the carcass of the deceased monarch, must needs rest in the deep bowels of a mountain of hewn stone.
Page 247 - ... 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 5 - So that if 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 would never be controverted till the entire body of classical literature had been proved to be spurious.
Page 96 - Malmesbury, annalist of the history of England, before the reign of Stephen ; Giraldus Cambrensis, known in the fields of history, theology, and poetry ; Joseph of Exeter, author of two Latin epic poems on the Trojan war, and the war of Antioch, or the crusade, which are read with pleasure, even in the present day. 4. But this era of a good taste in letters was of short duration.
Page 85 - If monk asleep in sheltering hood was seen ; He wary often peeped beneath that russet screen. " Hard by, against the window's adverse light, Where desks were wont in length of row to stand, The gowned artificers inclined to write; The pen of silver glistened in the hand; Some...
Page 156 - Egyptian builders were such as a calculable waste of human life would complete ; but not such as demand the mastery of practical difficulties by high efforts of mathematical genius. They could rear pyramids, or excavate catacombs, or hew temples from solid rocks of granite; but they attempted no works like those executed by the artists of the middle ages. For to poise so high in air the fretted roof and slender spire of a gothic minster, required a cost of mind greater than Was at the command of...