 | 1767 - 574 páginas
...perfon in whofe houfe he had always reiided ftood at the bar clofe to him. " It will no doubt ftrike the reader with wonder, to find a prohibition of fire-arms in records of fuch unfathomable antiquity; and he will probably from hence renew the fufpicion which has long been... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 492 páginas
...gives the following account of the invention in his preface to the Gentoo <c It will, no doubt, flrike the reader with wonder, to find a prohibition of fire-arms in records of fuch unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably hence renew the fufpicion which has long been deemed... | |
 | Francis Grose - 1801 - 542 páginas
...cannon, mentioned in that code, fuppofed at leaft coeval with Mofes ; it will, no doubt (fays he), ftrike the reader with wonder, to find a prohibition of fire-arms, in records of fuch unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably from hence renew the fufpicion which has long been... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 páginas
...it gunpowder, and gives the following account of the invention in his preface to the Gentoo Code. " It will, no doubt, strike the reader with wonder,...such unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely... | |
 | John Edmonds Stock - 1811 - 508 páginas
...believing that Vox ilia viva edit plenius. APPENDIX.—No. 5. CONJECTURES EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITIONS, " AT will no doubt strike the reader with wonder, to find...probably '' from hence renew the suspicion which has been deemed absurd, that Alexander '• the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of that kind... | |
 | 1844 - 498 páginas
...quarter, nor any person who has no means of escape." Referring to this document, Halhed observes, " It will no doubt strike the reader with wonder to...such unfathomable antiquity, and he will probably hence renew the suspicion, which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1848 - 1102 páginas
...prohibition ofjire-armt discovered in records of such unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed...a passage in Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain." There is also, (says Mr. Grose) the following antient testimony to this point in Grey's Gunnery, printed... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1849 - 666 páginas
...cannon and guns, or any kind of fire-arms." Halhed, commenting on this passage, says : — " The reader will probably from hence renew the suspicion which...that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with * Muratori, Scrip*. Her. Ita I. III. 1197- XV. 769. Ducange, Glossar. Med. et Inf. Lot. v. Rocheta.... | |
 | 1855 - 534 páginas
...wonder to find a prohibition of fire-arms in records of such remote antiquity, and he will probably hence renew the suspicion, which has long been deemed...the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of this kind in India, as a passage in Quintius Curtius seems to ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in... | |
 | John Scoffern - 1852 - 232 páginas
...quarter, nor any person who has no means of escape." Referring to this document, Halhed observes, " It will no doubt strike the reader with wonder to...prohibition of fire-arms in records of such unfathomable * Vide Thomson's History of Chemistry. antiquity, and he will probably hence renew the suspicion, which... | |
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Halhed, commenting on this passage, says: " The reader will probably from hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of that kind in India, as a passage in Quintus Curtius... 
