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Excerpt from The Apocalypse of St. John, in a Syriac Version Hitherto Unknown: Edited, (From a Ms. In the Library of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres), With Critical Notes on the Syriac Text, and an Annotated Reconstruction of the Underlying Greek TextI gladly take this opportunity of acknowledging the great liberality of the Earl of Crawford in giving me permission to borrow from his Library and to retain for many months this unique Ms.Abou...

Excerpt from The Apocalypse of St. John, in a Syriac Version Hitherto Unknown: Edited, (From a Ms. In the Library of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres), With Critical Notes on the Syriac Text, and an Annotated Reconstruction of the Underlying Greek TextI gladly take this opportunity of acknowledging the great liberality of the Earl of Crawford in giving me permission to borrow from his Library and to retain for many months this unique Ms.Abou...

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Excerpt from London and Westminster Improved, Illustrated by Plans: To Which Is Prefixed, a Discourse on Publick Magnificence, With Observations on the State of Arts and Artists in This Kingdom, Wherein the Study of the Polite Arts Is Recommended as Necessary to a Liberal EducationOne inconvenience deferves particular notice. Some fireets that would naturally open 111to the country are: {hut Up and darkened by houfes built crofs them at the en...

Excerpt from An Essay on Design: Including Proposals for Erecting a Public Academy to Be Supported by Voluntary Subscription (Till a Royal Foundation Can Be Obtain'd) For Educating the British Youth in Drawing, and the Several Arts Depending ThereonIn tbe liberal Seienees, zn ~nature, and the Means of not' 'in¿rior to any alber Nation in Europe. He tbat. Defigns, as well as be that Writes, nue/l find bis fidsvantage in this, finee' tbe Learnin...

Excerpt from On a Syriac Ms. Belonging to the Collection of Archbishop UssherThe ms. Which I thus identify as that which De Dieu and Walton have referred to, is catalogued as B. 5. 16. Its bulk is inconsiderable, and it can claim no venerable antiquity. It is a small quarto, written on paper, its age is little more than two centuries and a-half and its present binding (dating, I am told, about 1820) gives it quite a modern appearance. But I ho...

Excerpt from The Monastery of TallaghtSpare diet, short slumber, early rising, frequent obeisance, and gaze the friends that lie in the churchyard beneath thy feet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preservin...

Excerpt from The Art of Architecture: A Poem, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, Humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Honorable the Earl OfHould you, my lord, a wretched Pié'cure View, Which fome unlkilful copying-painter drew, Without Defign, Intolerably bad, Would you not (mile, and think? The Man was mad?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is ...

Excerpt from The Art of Architecture: A Poem, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, Humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Honorable the Earl OfHould you, my lord, a wretched Pié'cure View, Which fome unlkilful copying-painter drew, Without Defign, Intolerably bad, Would you not (mile, and think? The Man was mad?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is ...

Excerpt from Remnants of the Later Syriac Versions of the Bible: In Two Parts, Part I: Of New Testament, Part II: Of Old TestamentThe contents of this Volume are by no means homogeneous. Under the comprehensive head of Remnants it includes portions of the Old Testament and of the New: the former being excerpts merely, the latter, complete Epistles: the former belonging indisputably to the seventh century, the latter, to be assigned rather to t...

Excerpt from The Apocalypse of St. John, in a Syriac Version Hitherto Unknown: Edited From a Ms. In the Library of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, With Critical Notes on the Syriac Text, and an Annotated Reconstruction of the Underlying Greek TextI gladly take this opportunity of acknowledging the great liberality of the Earl of Crawford in giving me permission to borrow from his Library and to retain for many months this unique Ms.About t...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Excerpt from London and Westminster Improved, Illustrated by Plans: To Which Is Prefixed, a Discourse on Publick Magnificence, With Observations on the State of Arts and Artists in This Kingdom, Wherein the Study of the Polite Arts Is Recommended as Necessary to a Liberal Education One inconvenience deferves particular notice. Some fireets that would naturally open 111to the country are: {hut Up and darkened by houfes built crofs them at the ...

Excerpt from The Monastery of Tallaght The ¿eeting world, though one live on it, 'twill not be for long, foolish is he who sells truth to win a place the land of torment cf. Zof. 498. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recon...

Excerpt from On a Syriac Ms. Belonging to the Collection of Archbishop Ussher I propose, accordingly, to trace the ms. In question, and to show that it is not lost, but is and has been for more than 200 years in the possession of Trinity College, Dublin, and farther, that its contents have been misdo scribed in such a manner as to have hitherto prevented its identification, and caused it to be overlooked. The ms. Which I thus identify as tha...

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