Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves: Many of which are Now First Published : I. Pyramidographia : II. a Discourse of the Roman Foot : III. Tracts Upon Various Subjects : IV. a Description of the Grand Seignor's Seraglio : to which are Added, I. Reflections on the Pyramidographia, Written by an Anonymous Author : II. a Dissertation Upon the Sacred Cubit of the Jews : Translated from the Latin of Sir Isaac Newton, Not Yet Published : to the Whole is Prefix'd, an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, כרך 1J. Hughs, 1737 |
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עמוד iii
... appears , that about the year 1635 , before his voyage to the Eaft , he went to Paris and Leyden , where he contracted a friendship with the celebrated James Golius . Dr. Smith was at a lofs to determine , whether our author went to ...
... appears , that about the year 1635 , before his voyage to the Eaft , he went to Paris and Leyden , where he contracted a friendship with the celebrated James Golius . Dr. Smith was at a lofs to determine , whether our author went to ...
עמוד vi
... appears from his note - book , that he not only wrote down the infcripti- ons , but likewife meafured the pillars and other monuments there , and took a draught of them , particularly Ceftius's Pyramid and the Pantheon . He view'd ...
... appears from his note - book , that he not only wrote down the infcripti- ons , but likewife meafured the pillars and other monuments there , and took a draught of them , particularly Ceftius's Pyramid and the Pantheon . He view'd ...
עמוד vii
... , 1638 ; and Dr. Thomas Smith's Mifcellanea printed at London 1686 , in 8vo . ( p ) Smith , Vita Joann . Gravii , p . 10 . ( 9 ) Ibid . However , it appears from Mr. Greaves's Letter from Conftantinople Mr. JOHN GREAves . vii.
... , 1638 ; and Dr. Thomas Smith's Mifcellanea printed at London 1686 , in 8vo . ( p ) Smith , Vita Joann . Gravii , p . 10 . ( 9 ) Ibid . However , it appears from Mr. Greaves's Letter from Conftantinople Mr. JOHN GREAves . vii.
עמוד viii
... appears from Mr. Greaves's Letter from Conftantinople dated August 2 , 1638 , that he believ'd there was a treasure of Greek and Latin authors in the Seraglio ; for having obferv'd , that amongst other ma- nufcripts he had procur'd ...
... appears from Mr. Greaves's Letter from Conftantinople dated August 2 , 1638 , that he believ'd there was a treasure of Greek and Latin authors in the Seraglio ; for having obferv'd , that amongst other ma- nufcripts he had procur'd ...
עמוד xiii
... appears from the hiftory of those times , " that he wrote the animadverfions out of " refentment to Mr. Greaves , who had re- " fused him his intereft for procuring a " place , which he follicited in vain . " Mr. Greaves , upon feeing ...
... appears from the hiftory of those times , " that he wrote the animadverfions out of " refentment to Mr. Greaves , who had re- " fused him his intereft for procuring a " place , which he follicited in vain . " Mr. Greaves , upon feeing ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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עמוד 254 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and th^e.
עמוד 27 - And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation ? that ye shall say, Thy servants...
עמוד 110 - They fetcht massy stones from the /Ethiopians, and made with these the foundation of the three Pyramids, fastening them together with lead and iron. They built the gates of them forty cubits...
עמוד 116 - ... galleries. At the end of it, on the right hand, is the well mentioned by Pliny ; the which is circular, and not square, as the Arabian writers describe...
עמוד 61 - Pyramid, a chamber, in which there was a hollow stone : in it was a statue of stone like a man, and within it a man, upon whom was a breast-plate of gold set with jewels ; upon...
עמוד 119 - ... we at length come to another partition. The length of the gallery, from the well below to this partition above, is an hundred fifty and four feet : but if we meafure the pavement of the floor, it is...
עמוד 46 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
עמוד 92 - The reft of the Sides were examined by a Line, for want of an even Level, and a convenient Diftance to place my Mtrumeots , both which the Area, on the former fide, afforded.
עמוד 118 - ... and meeting above in a kind of arch, or rather an angle. On the eaft fide of this room, in the middle of it...
עמוד 111 - He also put in the coloured Pyramid the commentaries of the Priests in chests of black marble, and with every Priest a book, in which were the wonders of his profession, and of his actions, and of his nature, and what was done in his time, and what is, and what shall be, from the beginning of time to the end of it.