 Navarre, that day six weeks, by nine o'clock in the morning, when he would attend them and be ready to answer to whatever should be proposed to him in any art or science, and in any of these twelve languages : Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish,...  The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the ... - Σελίδα 322των Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 547 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1855 - 630 σελίδες
...attend them, and be ready to answer whatever should be proposed to him in any art or science, and in any of these twelve languages, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic,...prose, at the discretion of the disputant. During the whole intermediate time, instead of closely attending to his studies, as might have been expected,... | |
 | Charles Edwards - 1855 - 272 σελίδες
...volunteered — it was ' at a time when he was only twenty years of age — to dispute with any one in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French,...and Sclavonian ; and this, either in verse or prose. He did not seem to prepare himself, but occupied his time in hunting, hawking, tilting, vaulting, tossing... | |
 | Charles Edwards - 1855 - 268 σελίδες
...a time when he was only twenty years of age — to dispute with any one in Hebrew, Syriae, Arabie, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch,...and Sclavonian ; and this, either in verse or prose. He did not seem to prepare himself, but occupied his time in hunting, hawking, tilting, vaulting, tossing... | |
 | 1857 - 426 σελίδες
...theological nor jurisprudential habits, though grounded but upon the testimonies of God and man, and that in any of these twelve languages, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic,...Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian, in either verse or prose, at the discretion of the disputant : " 1 in the mean time, as we are duly... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 σελίδες
...juriaprudential habits, though grounded but upon the testimonies of God and man, and that in any of these 12 languages: Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Slavonian, in either prose or verse, at the discretion of the disputant." The interval he passed in... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 792 σελίδες
...jnrisprudential habits, though grounded but upon the testimonies of God and man, and that in any of these 12 languages : Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin,...Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Slavonian, in either prose or verse, at the discretion of the disputant." The interval he passed in... | |
 | Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866 - 518 σελίδες
...literature, art, and science, and offering to give answers in any of the following languages, viz., Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonic, and either in prose or verse, at the option of his antagonist. On the day appointed three... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1875 - 316 σελίδες
...attend them, and be ready to answer to whatever should be proposed to him in any art or science, and in any of these twelve languages — Hebrew, Syriac,...English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian ; and this eithertn verse or prose, at the discretion of the disputant. We give the challenge pretty fully in... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 σελίδες
...which should be proposed to him, on any art or science, in any of the twelve following languages, viz. Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French,...Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian ; and this either in prose or verse, at the choice of his antagonist. Bold as this challenge may appear, instead of devoting... | |
 | James Moir Porteous - 1876 - 322 σελίδες
...Buchanan, at Stirling. It is confidently affirmed that he was versed in twelve different languages, viz., Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Slavonian. Though some of the accounts handed down are not sufficiently reliable, there appears to... | |
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