 | 1728 - 528 sider
...j that both by their Infcriptions and Medals it appears they wrote gasps^/ec, that is, alternately from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, which was the rnoft antient manner of writing among the Greeks. Paufanias * com* Lib. 5. 14 The Prefent... | |
 | Charles Vallencey - 1786 - 632 sider
...written with an iron ftile after the manner of the Carthaginians, Egyptians and Phoenicians, that is from the left to the right, and from the right to the left alternately, as is evinced from the infcriptions at New-Grange ano^from feveral MSS. This method of... | |
 | Charles Vallancey - 1786 - 640 sider
...written with an iron ftile after the manner of the Carthaginians, Egyptians and Phoenicians, that is from the left to the right, and from the right to the left alternately, as is evinced from the infcriptions at New-Grange and from feveral MSS. This method of... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1788 - 272 sider
...Greeks called bouftrophedon 5 that is, the lines turn on the marble, as oxen turn in plowing, froin the left to the right, and from the right to the left, alternately. The retrograde order of the letters is a relic of the oriental way cf •writing. This... | |
 | 1817 - 630 sider
...pnndiml, having been obliged during the whole of the battle to march with their arms on their shoulders, from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, without firing a single musket. " Here 1 cannot help suspending these details, to call your attention... | |
 | Richard Chandler - 1817 - 748 sider
...donations were common, and we shall have occasion to mention several. The lines in both inscriptions range from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, alternately. This mode of disposition was called Boustrophtdon, the lines turning on the marble as... | |
 | 1825 - 498 sider
...in drawing lines in various directions. The mother now draws straight lines upwards and downwards, from the left to the right, and from the right to the left : in an oblique direction to the right, to the left, &c. asking the children, after drawing each line,... | |
 | Friedrich Ludwig Jahn - 1828 - 234 sider
...through between the arms ; the hands push off, and the descent is made on the right side of the horse. a. from the left to the right, and from the right to the left side of the horse, over the saddle, over the croup, over the neck. IV. Eleventh vault from the side... | |
 | sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1st bart.) - 1839 - 56 sider
...were common, and we shall have occasion to mention several. " The lines in both inscriptions range from the left to the right, and from the right to the left alternately. This mode of disposition was called boustrophedon, the lines turning on the marble as... | |
 | 1924 - 680 sider
...It is better not to disturb him.' THK GHEKK ELECTIONS POLITICAL sentiment in Greece seems to swing from the Left to the Right and from the Right to the Left again with extraordinary rapidity. Doubtless this is explained largely by the leading part foreign... | |
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Greek writers, denotes the point of one to the other and with the ends folded back from the left to the right and from the right to the left, and covering the bareness of his neck. 
