 They went likewise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones.  Readings in Rabelais - Page 29by François Rabelais, Walter Besant, Sir Walter Besant - 1883 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
 | François Rabelais - 1807 - 370 pages
...(not "75 years old, ner in 1533, as Bucholca it ; and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it. In playing, they examined the passages of ancient authors,...any metaphor drawn from it. They went likewise to sec the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also... | |
 | François Rabelais - Gargantua (Legendary character) - 1883 - 330 pages
...antique play of tables, as Leonicus hath written of it, and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it. In playing they examined the passages of ancient authors,...drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones. Nor did they... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - Comedy - 1894 - 604 pages
...(ancient) play of Tables, as Leon'icus has written of it and as our good friend Las'caris playeth at it. In playing, they examined the passages of ancient authors...it. They went likewise to see the drawing of metals l or the casting of great ordnance; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths, and cutters... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 676 pages
...recapitulate, after the manner of the Pythagoreans, that which he had read, seen, learned, done, and understood in the whole course of that day. Then prayed...goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones, the alchemists, coiners of money, upholsterers, weavers, velvet-workers, watchmakers, looking-glass-makers, printers,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 pages
...(ancient) play of Tables, as Leonicus has written of it ; and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it. In playing, they examined the passages of ancient authors...drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths, and cutters of precious stones : nor did they... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 458 pages
...(ancient) play of Tables, as Leonicus has written of it ; and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it. In playing, they examined the passages of ancient authors...drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths, and cutters of precious stones : nor did they... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 422 pages
...recapitulate, after the manner of the Pythagoreans, that which he had read, seen, learned, done, and understood in the whole course of that day. Then prayed...goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones, the alchemists, coiners of money, upholsterers, weavers, velvet-workers, watchmakers, looking-glass-makers, printers,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 658 pages
...themselves in bottling hay, in cleaving and sawing wood, and in threshing sheaves of corn at the barn. into use the antique game of knucklebones, as Leonicus...goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones, the alchemists, coiners of money, upholsterers, weavers, velvet-workers, watchmakers, looking-glass-makers, printers,... | |
 | François Rabelais - 1903 - 464 pages
...antique play of tables, as Leonicus hath written of it, and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it. In playing they examined the passages of ancient authors...drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance; how the lapidaries did work; as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones. Nor did they omit... | |
 | François Rabelais - Fiction - 1904 - 310 pages
...antique play of tables, as Leonicus hath written of it, and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it. In playing they examined the passages of ancient authors...drawing of "metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work ; as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones. Nor did they... | |
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