 | Pierre Daniel Huet (bp. of Avranches.) - 1810 - 526 pages
...day confined to his bed by a slight illness, and we who stood round were endeavouring to en* tertain him by pleasant conversation, mention was .by chance...such lines each page of the paper could easily admit 120, therefore the page would contain 24OO Homeric verses : and as the leaf so divided would give eight... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Cabinet officers - 1841 - 412 pages
...they expressed their astonishment at this assertion, that I might not be suspected of idle boasting, I immediately put it to the proof. " I therefore took...single line in so small a character, that it contained 20 verses of the Iliad. Of such lines each page of the paper could easily admit 120 ; therefore the... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1841 - 416 pages
...they expressed their astonishment at this assertion, that I might not be suspected of idle boasting, I immediately put it to the proof. " I therefore took...common leaf of paper, and on its narrower side wrote a eingle line in so small a character, that it contained 20 verses of the Iliad. Of such lines each page... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - Curiosities and wonders - 1894 - 712 pages
...they expressed their astonishment at this assertion, that I might not be suspected of idle boasting, I immediately put it to the proof. I therefore took...it contained twenty verses of the Iliad : of such line* each page of the paper could easily admit 120, therefore the page would contain 2400 Homeric... | |
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This appearing incredible to many of the company, I contended not only that it might be done, but that I could do it. As they expressed their astonishment at this assertion, that I might not be suspected of idle boasting, I immediately put it to the proof.... 